Having spent 6 years in the Navy and visited every country bordering the Mediterranian, along with such other places as England, Norway, Jamaca, Porta Rico, etc, etc, I found two things to be true everywhere.
One, nearly everyone spoke at least a little bit of English, and a dozen other languages other than their own where needed. Thing is they only did so if they wanted to get handouts from, or sell stuff to tourists. That was how they made their living and they made the most of it.
Two, if they weren't interested in selling you something, they didn't care who you were, or where you were from. You were in their country and you were expected to speak their language, or at least act like you were trying.
Thing is, here in the US, we're being told that we need to speak several other languages, Spanish in particular, if we just want to live and work in our own country. Personally I work for alot of hispanic people and while many of them speak Spanish on a regular basis, when we're doing business they speak English if they want their stuff fixed. I look at it the same way those in other countries look at it, I'm not in the tourist industry. If someone is a tourist and just visiting, fine, let them speak what they will, but if they moved here, and expect to live and work here, then they need to learn the language of OUR country. To put it another way, they moved to a new country to call their own and moved away from their old country, so why try to bring with you what you were moving away from. If you don't like everything about it here, then move back, don't expect me to make my country like your old one just so suit you, I'm not the one that moved......... Just my .02
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