Is it racist to tell someone to speak English?

Answer 1

No, especially if you are in an English speaking country.

Answer 2

It is if that person is a person who cannot speak English well, and thus would feel uncomfortable and worried that they might not get their message across well in English.

How would you feel in France, or Germany, or Spain, if you had just a few basic words of French, or German, or Spanish, and somebody insisted that you spoke only the local language?

Answer 3

OK as long as you ask in a polite way and not an arrogant way.

Answer 4

Expecting everyone to speak English just because it’s the only language you speak will make you appear very ignorant, self-centred and narrow minded. Which can end up getting the racist label. However if you are having a conversation with someone or people and English is the only mutually spoken language between the parties, then asking that everyone speak English would undoubtedly be necessary for basic verbal communication.

Answer 5

nope, if you can't understand what they are trying to tell you......................

Answer 6

It sure isn't a nice thing to do, whether the person is a different race from you or not. At the very least it makes you an ethnocentric bigot? Look up those words.

Answer 7

If you are asking them to speak English when speaking to you, because you only understand English then no. But don't bother people who are speaking another language in public. People have every right to speak any language they want when conversing with friends or family out in public. It's called freedom of speech. People's private conversations shouldn't bother you.

Answer 8

No what language they speak has nothing to do with race

Answer 9

Non mais c'est notre choix de parler une autre langue si on le veut. Don't you think?

Answer 10

They can speak whatever they want

Answer 11

no