Monday, 9 November 2020

"Speak LANGUAGE, this is COUNTRY!"

My friend, who is Vietnamese, gets told "Speak English, you're in America!" all the damn time.

It got quite annoying to him, so he eventually decided to do something about it.

He looked up the Native American tribe whose tribe was originally on the land where he lives, went to the tribe's cultural center, told the elderly grandma working there he was tired of being told to speak English in America, and had her teach him how to say "White person/outsider/non-native" in the language as well as some other curse words and what not.

Apparently this made that Native American granny's week, because she went all out and really taught him quite a lot.

And ever since any time some racist tells him to speak English in America he says "Well why don't you speak [Native American tribe's language], we're in [Native American tribe]'s lands! You damn [Native American word for white person]!"

The shockedpikachu.jpg face he gets in response never gets old.

They completely freeze up for a few seconds, before responding in entertaining ways such as gasping for air or pointing their finger angrily or just turning and walking away lol.

Eventually the word spread among my group of friends and quite a few of them- who as immigrants, or even just people who speak a second language, occasionally also get told this- are always chomping at the bit to get their chance to use this response.

Every time some of them finally does they immediately announce it to everyone they know lol and it really never gets old.

Anyway, I didn't really know where to post this but felt it matched here well enough (hopefully) as it takes the racist's logic and returns it right back to them in a way that really rustles their jimmies.

What ways have any of y'all flipped the script on racists?

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