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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They probably think you are the nanny and that therefore, its OK to be rude to you.[/quote]

This thought sincerely never occurred to me until now. But you are probably right.

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My SIL is from Argentina and has a dark complexion and speaks Spanish as her first language.  My nephews are both blonde with fair skin.  I used to take them swimming to out local YMCA (this was in a wealthy CT suburb) and they loved loved lived coming with me, so when I moved away I bought an expensive family membership for SIL and the boys.  I was disappointed that she seemed to go only twice even though they offered free day care while exercising and the boys loved swimming more than anything.  Finally, my SIL told me that everyone was rude all the time.  I had only ever seen lovely old rich white biddies getting their water aerobics in, and they were sweet as pie, so I thought she must have another reason why he avoided going.

The next time I visited, the boys begged me to take them swimming, so I convinced my SIL to go and used a guest pass on her membership.  When we went into the dressing room, I couldn't believe it -- they were taking openly about my SIL, saying how mad they'd be that a nanny speaks to the boys in Spanish, etc.  Her English isn't great, but she knew they were saying bad things.  One saw my nephew run to me and asked to speak with me privately and told me that my nanny was very rude and always spoke Spanish to my boys.  I said loudly, "These are my brother's boys and this is their mother.  They are fully fluent in English and Spanish and their mother can speak to them in whatever language she prefers."

It never occurred to me 'till then that they thought they had free license to be rude to her b/c she was "the help".  They were never that rude again, but still, it sucks[/quote]

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