What you’ve said is true, but it doesn’t negate my point: the frustration felt by locals dealing with entitled tourists demanding their language be accommodated. The US doesn’t have a similar problem to Spain on that front.
Eh… it’s probably not so much that they are demanding their language be spoken…
More a case of the tourists are probably being dickheads in general and the locals have had enough of their shit. That and the locals would like to be able to enjoy their own beach without having to wade through masses of tourists.
I mean, it depends where you go in Spain right. If you’re working in an office in Madrid and someone gets annoyed that you don’t speak English that’s one thing, if you’re working a restaurant in an area that makes all its money from tourism, then surely it makes sense to make those people bringing in the dough feel comfortable.
The US has the world’s largest spanish speaking country sharing a 2000mile land border from coast to coast with it. Do you think that Mexican’s don’t travel to the America? What is exactly disqualifies the above sentiment from applying to America, vs applying to Spain?
What you’ve said is true, but it doesn’t negate my point: the frustration felt by locals dealing with entitled tourists demanding their language be accommodated. The US doesn’t have a similar problem to Spain on that front.
Eh… it’s probably not so much that they are demanding their language be spoken…
More a case of the tourists are probably being dickheads in general and the locals have had enough of their shit. That and the locals would like to be able to enjoy their own beach without having to wade through masses of tourists.
I mean, it depends where you go in Spain right. If you’re working in an office in Madrid and someone gets annoyed that you don’t speak English that’s one thing, if you’re working a restaurant in an area that makes all its money from tourism, then surely it makes sense to make those people bringing in the dough feel comfortable.
The US has the world’s largest spanish speaking country sharing a 2000mile land border from coast to coast with it. Do you think that Mexican’s don’t travel to the America? What is exactly disqualifies the above sentiment from applying to America, vs applying to Spain?
When Mexicans travel to the US they don’t demand that everyone else speak Spanish.
Why would UK tourists be uniquely entitled compared to any other nationality?
Have you met Brittons? Especially the kind that typically go on package holidays to Spain?
I guess you’d have to ask them.