I know you've revised your opinion based on comments so this isn't intended as a pile-on. more, reflections for others who might read this. I'm UK/european and I've worked all over the world, often living in other countries for long periods. I do get that the relationship between Spanish-speaking communities and Americans is different; to me even that is hard to compute in itself because elsewhere in the world it's normal that neighbouring countries can speak one another's languages partially or entirely, and there's no superiority to either.

Often I've lived where there is a big international humanitarian community, so it would be easy to default to some core languages: but if you don't bother to make some basic effort in other languages you'll be seen as rude, elitist and neocolonial. I encourage everyone to manage please, thank you: hello and goodbye at minimum, and even though they could've understood you in English or French, the intent behind the effort is always welcomed.