That’s a really weird attitude. I come from a multicultural city where people speak their own language in public all the time and nobody presumes it has anything to do with them. Why would it?
My American friend group is perfectly fine if my wife and I speak the occasional Dutch in front of them. They know we’d make fun of them to their faces if we felt like it.
That’s a really weird attitude. I come from a multicultural city where people speak their own language in public all the time and nobody presumes it has anything to do with them. Why would it?
If you’re in a social group, purposefully using a separate channel is interpreted as something the group wouldn’t approve of.
My American friend group is perfectly fine if my wife and I speak the occasional Dutch in front of them. They know we’d make fun of them to their faces if we felt like it.