So I'm the single mother of a teenage daughter.

That should be enough said right there. Truthfully it should.

But said teenager has a surefire way to get my goat faster than anything I know and that is to accuse me of racism or worse being stupid because I don;t see life from her perspective a lot of times.

Like last night.

My significant other is having major phone issues so he was using my phone to call his provider. Half an hour later, he has the promise of a new phone on its way and he was telling me about the end of the call I couldn;t hear. The lady from the call center in the Phillipines who could barely understand him and he her. So my only comment was, for right or wrong, that if people are going to do business in a country they need to be able to coherently speak the language and comprehend it as well.

That set my kid off  like you would not believe. I was rude and a number of other things. I told her that there have been a number of times I have been on the phone and I cannot understand the other person due to their extremely thick accent and have really wanted to request someone with better ability to communicate with me and again I was informed I was rude and horrible.

Why? I speak English. Ok American English, but still.  I do not have the ear for dialects and accents and so on that I did when I was younger. I do not remember most of my high school Spanish class. I have not had to use it. The language of this country, the language govt business is done in first and foremost is English. Speak it. Read it . Learn it. If I was moving to or even visiting another country, I would darn sure learn the language first.

Just saying.