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human
CMV: I believe people who move to america should learn how to speak english.

So I work in a mall in florida, often I have customers that don't speak english at all and get upset with me for not speaking their language. Now I know that some of these people are tourists but growing up here in my teen years I know that I have peers that have to translate everything for their parents because they don't want to learn the language that is spoken in america.

I know that America does not have a national language but does in some states. Am i wrong for believing people who come to america should speak english

(Please exclude tourists from this question)
gpt
You wrongly assume that immigrants who don't speak English aren't actively trying to learn English. It takes *years* to learn English, which is a ridiculously complicated language with an exception for every rule and an exception for every exception.

If you have ever traveled abroad or studied a foreign language intensively, you should be able to empathize with the difficulties and frustrations many immigrants face when coming here when they don't speak the language. If you have never traveled abroad or studied a foreign language intensively, then you're really in no position to judge.  

On top of that, the older you get, the harder it is to learn a foreign language. It's probably not that your peers' parents "don't want to learn," it's that learning a foreign language while raising kids and working a job is incredibly difficult. 

Besides, the immigrants who do come here and don't speak English and don't attempt to learn (they are in the minority) most likely aren't harming anyone. Live and let live. When you deal with customers who don't speak English, you have no idea what their background is, why they're here, or what they're doing in this country. So don't judge them unless they're actually being an asshole to you.