What’s the deal with parents who won’t acknowledge your existence at the bus stop?

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Anonymous wrote:We’re new at the bus stop for summer school. This is MCPS if it matters. I’m not a Chatty Cathy. Not even a wave or eye contact is pretty harsh especially when the person will then chat with other people.

This happens to me all the time. They don’t acknowledge me but are super friendly with other people. I am Latina and speak Spanish to my kids, so perhaps they think I don’t speak English.

Why do you speak Spanish to your kids? In front of other people? Are you being performative?

So now speaking your native language to your kids is wrong? I guess we have found another thing that social justice warriors and right wing racists agree on.

It is generally considered rude to speak another language in mixed company.

No, not its not. Try to tone down the jealousy. Every parent in the DMV is paying thousands a year for foreign-language immersion for their kids and you're just mad PP can do it on it her own and ensure her kids fluency in a second language without anyone else.

We’re not jealous, we’re just explaining. If I have never heard a parent speak English, I will not approach them. If they want to chat, they can approach me and introduce themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re new at the bus stop for summer school. This is MCPS if it matters. I’m not a Chatty Cathy. Not even a wave or eye contact is pretty harsh especially when the person will then chat with other people.

This happens to me all the time. They don’t acknowledge me but are super friendly with other people. I am Latina and speak Spanish to my kids, so perhaps they think I don’t speak English.

Why do you speak Spanish to your kids? In front of other people? Are you being performative?

So now speaking your native language to your kids is wrong? I guess we have found another thing that social justice warriors and right wing racists agree on.

It is generally considered rude to speak another language in mixed company.

No, not its not. Try to tone down the jealousy. Every parent in the DMV is paying thousands a year for foreign-language immersion for their kids and you're just mad PP can do it on it her own and ensure her kids fluency in a second language without anyone else.

We’re not jealous, we’re just explaining. If I have never heard a parent speak English, I will not approach them. If they want to chat, they can approach me and introduce themselves.

Snob.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re new at the bus stop for summer school. This is MCPS if it matters. I’m not a Chatty Cathy. Not even a wave or eye contact is pretty harsh especially when the person will then chat with other people.

This happens to me all the time. They don’t acknowledge me but are super friendly with other people. I am Latina and speak Spanish to my kids, so perhaps they think I don’t speak English.

Why do you speak Spanish to your kids? In front of other people? Are you being performative?

So now speaking your native language to your kids is wrong? I guess we have found another thing that social justice warriors and right wing racists agree on.

It is generally considered rude to speak another language in mixed company.

No, not its not. Try to tone down the jealousy. Every parent in the DMV is paying thousands a year for foreign-language immersion for their kids and you're just mad PP can do it on it her own and ensure her kids fluency in a second language without anyone else.

We’re not jealous, we’re just explaining. If I have never heard a parent speak English, I will not approach them. If they want to chat, they can approach me and introduce themselves.

Snob.

I wait for a trusted intermediary to introduce/present a new person to me, otherwise I don't "know" them and will have to cut them in public.

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I'm already in work mode. I'm trying to balance paying attention to my kid and answering my email. I can't add socializing to the mix.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re new at the bus stop for summer school. This is MCPS if it matters. I’m not a Chatty Cathy. Not even a wave or eye contact is pretty harsh especially when the person will then chat with other people.

This happens to me all the time. They don’t acknowledge me but are super friendly with other people. I am Latina and speak Spanish to my kids, so perhaps they think I don’t speak English.

Why do you speak Spanish to your kids? In front of other people? Are you being performative?

So now speaking your native language to your kids is wrong? I guess we have found another thing that social justice warriors and right wing racists agree on.

It is generally considered rude to speak another language in mixed company.

No, not its not. Try to tone down the jealousy. Every parent in the DMV is paying thousands a year for foreign-language immersion for their kids and you're just mad PP can do it on it her own and ensure her kids fluency in a second language without anyone else.

We’re not jealous, we’re just explaining. If I have never heard a parent speak English, I will not approach them. If they want to chat, they can approach me and introduce themselves.

Snob.

I wait for a trusted intermediary to introduce/present a new person to me, otherwise I don't "know" them and will have to cut them in public.

Do they call you "Your Majesty"?

[Anonymous]

They watched Pride and Prejudice, op, and can't talk to you as you have not been properly introduced!

[Anonymous]

Are you initiating? All you have to do is smile and say "Good Morning!" first to start a conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re new at the bus stop for summer school. This is MCPS if it matters. I’m not a Chatty Cathy. Not even a wave or eye contact is pretty harsh especially when the person will then chat with other people.

This happens to me all the time. They don’t acknowledge me but are super friendly with other people. I am Latina and speak Spanish to my kids, so perhaps they think I don’t speak English.

Why do you speak Spanish to your kids? In front of other people? Are you being performative?

So now speaking your native language to your kids is wrong? I guess we have found another thing that social justice warriors and right wing racists agree on.

It is generally considered rude to speak another language in mixed company.

No, not its not. Try to tone down the jealousy. Every parent in the DMV is paying thousands a year for foreign-language immersion for their kids and you're just mad PP can do it on it her own and ensure her kids fluency in a second language without anyone else.

We’re not jealous, we’re just explaining. If I have never heard a parent speak English, I will not approach them. If they want to chat, they can approach me and introduce themselves.

You are a racist jerk is what you are. Everyone, in any language, will understand a polite "hello" or "good morning". Trust me.

-Child of an immigrant who spoke minimal English, but still managed to greet everyone she met with "hello" or "nice to meet you".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re new at the bus stop for summer school. This is MCPS if it matters. I’m not a Chatty Cathy. Not even a wave or eye contact is pretty harsh especially when the person will then chat with other people.

One of the last vestiges of racism and superiority. It is part of the American culture to pretend that they don't know you. Nowhere else in the world that happens, it's considered extremely rude. Here it is normal, and practiced by the kids themselves, perfect mirrors of their asshole parents.