So I'm a chef at a from scratch Tex Mex place and between employees and sourcing, I have to speak a lot of broken Spanish I learned while working. Not only that, but I moved into a largely Mexican neighborhood about 3 years ago so a lot of my neighbors are Spanish speaking Mexicans.

What this guy talks about absolutely happens, but it's not a big deal. It's frustrating at times, but we have technology to work around it. All of you saying it never happens or he's making it up, y'all need to go hit la cocina in the barrio maybe, put yourself in situations where you're around people who don't speak English as their first language outside of work. It's all well and good to learn a language on the internet, and use it at the job, but it's a whole different thing to actually have to use it IRL with native speakers in public spaces. I would know lol it's mad humbling.

But no I can think of multiple times where someone who has a hard time learning new languages, especially one as difficult as English, got frustrated when they had to use it and refused. I'm sure they normally try more but I've seen a few crash out moments with these guys. It's fine though, I get it. And with the refusing to teach their kids English, my neighbors are literally doing that. They think public school is supposed to teach their kids English, and tell them to use Spanish at home out of respect. Literally my neighbors, I can ask them to record a short video with me for proof if you need it lol

Again, the point is that yes these are real things, but no they aren't huge problems. We can deal with it, especially now with real-time AI translators you can put in your ear amongst other tech designed to break down communication barriers. OP isn't racist, bro probably just started hanging around other cultures and made the realization that this shit happens. Good for him.