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Home Front: Culture Wars
Starbucks Customer Demands Asian Student Stop Speaking Korean
2017-12-21
[Huffpoo] A woman was thrown out of a Starbucks in Walnut Creek, California, earlier this month after she berated two Asian customers with racist insults.

The patron verbally attacked Annie An, a Korean international college student, after she heard An conversing in Korean with her tutor Sean Lee. An caught some video of the incident on her phone and shared it on Facebook.

In her post, An said that before she began recording, the woman told her, "This is America. Use English only." Later the woman allegedly added, "I don’t want to hear foreign language."

"... Oriental. I hate it," the woman can be heard saying in the video.

"I’m sorry, but they’re allowed to speak their language here," a Starbucks employee is heard responding.

"President Obama said that everyone in here in America ... should speak English," the woman says

"They’re completely allowed to use their own language," the employee reiterates.

At one point, the woman types on her laptop keyboard and declares, "You’re going to be in trouble when I get this letter out" ― before another customer notes, "You’re pressing numbers over and over again."

The Starbucks worker repeatedly asks the woman to leave and threatens to call the police.

Eventually police officers arrived ― An wrote that they were called by Starbucks ― and escorted the woman out of the establishment.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  In Hebrew it means "thank you very much." :-)
Posted by: gorb   2017-12-21 23:57  

#6  Ermm, "Toda Rabah" is Arabic, "god willing".
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-12-21 20:39  

#5  To be fair, the time the trailing daughters and I were speaking in German in the Cincinnati grocery store checkout line, we were indeed talking about the lady behind us...

Reminds me of when myself and a buddy were riding a bus in Rio, the bus was packed! And these babes got on right behind us. One of the girls that was very well endowed was smashed right up against me. I was looking down her shirt and I said to my buddy: "This girl has a set of boobs that would put a Holstein cow to shame."

So this girl looks at me and smiles, looks at my buddy and says: "Wow, how many Americans are on this bus?" In perfect mid-western accented English. I know what mortification feels like.
Posted by: Whusoper Threting3423   2017-12-21 19:23  

#4  I have a friend who was standing in line at the grocery store with her daughter, and they were speaking about the good looking guy ahead of them. In Hebrew. They were up to talking about how nice they thought his butt looked when he finished paying for his stuff. He picked it up and turned to them and said "Toda rabah" and left with a smile on his face. I guess sexual harassment wasn't a bad thing then. :-)
Posted by: gorb   2017-12-21 17:25  

#3  I was once told to speak German in Germany. People get touchy when they can’t understand what you’re saying — they suspect you are talking about them.

To be fair, the time the trailing daughters and I were speaking in German in the Cincinnati grocery store checkout line, we were indeed talking about the lady behind us... who as it turned out also spoke German. I was mortified.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-21 17:18  

#2  Throwing a flag on this.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-12-21 13:29  

#1  "President Obama said that everyone in here in America ... should speak English"

Then why are the ObamaCare websites (and Whitehouse.gov for a time) available in multiple languages?

He may have mentioned it once, but his actions were contrary.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-12-21 08:08  

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