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| LtM Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5860 days ago 130 posts - 223 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 2 of 14 08 July 2009 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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The comment could be meant as a racist one; it really depends on what was going on in his mind. However, I can easily picture him saying, "C’est difficile pour un Américain, hein?" (or un Espagnol, or whatever).
The French sometimes don't tolerate poor pronunciation of their language very well, but then again, neither do a certain percentage of people in any culture. It's generally better to just let it go and move on. Life is short. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3 of 14 08 July 2009 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | ||
It's not necessarily racist but answering with a smug expression would bug me a bit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlejandroMendoz Newbie Canada Joined 5625 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, English* | Message 4 of 14 08 July 2009 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Personally, i don't think it was racist. Perhaps you are overreacting?
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 5 of 14 08 July 2009 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not necessarily racist, but possibly. Certainly rude but I’m not sure it was intended to be. French is a language where the pronunciation is very important, more so than any other language I know so I would advise you work on your pronunciation, especially since you are living there.
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6372 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 14 08 July 2009 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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No. It is not racist.
Racism: 1. the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races 2. discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race I imagine he would have said the same thing to an English, German, Greek, Zulu or Japanese speaker. Some people are 'proud' of their language and think that it's somehow too good for foreigners. I doubt it was about your race. And are you really surprised you met a snobby French person??? Edited by zerothinking on 08 July 2009 at 9:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 8 of 14 08 July 2009 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||
…and if you are surprised, please send me a check for $10,000, just to pay the fees for a bank check for $500,000 that I am about to receive from Nigeria, and I will split the $500,000 with you as soon as I receive it ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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