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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this bother you? If they aren't speaking with you, what does it matter? [/quote]

Because it's rude, that's why. I don't shop there anymore because the new one down the street is so much bigger and has parking. But yeah, you shouldn't be talking in another language in front of people who don't understand it, same as you shouldn't be whispering in front of others. Basic manners.[/quote]

They aren't talking to you. They have no obligation to include you in their conversation. Stop policing their language.[/quote]

No one said they want to be included. The OP did say maybe not loudly. That could go for English too I suppose. You expect staff speaking to one another in their language when in an ethnic store but not necessarily at Trader Joe's. Have not encountered it at the route 29 Woodmoor Trader Joe's though they could be at hours when we do not shop there.[/quote]

Hearing other languages is one of the great pleasures of living in a diverse, international metropolitan area.

Speaking one’s primary language is a pleasure that people from other places get to enjoy in a life where the majority of things are centered toward people not like them, and it’s a connection to their culture. 
Is it slightly unsettling because you’re afraid they’re talking about you? If that’s true, I think you just get over it. The slight discomfort you feel about that hypothetical is the cost of not being the center of everyone else’s universe.

Why not learn a greeting and a couple of words in whatever that language is? Expand yourself. [/quote]

Or how about....not speak loudly while customers are around? You seem to only want to talk about expanding cultural horizons. This thread is in Foods forum. Why don't you start a thread in a different forum to lecture people in cultural stuff. FYI- many in DC suburbs are already "cultural."[/quote]

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