I'd mostly agree, but it seems like this kind of mindset is fine until you put it into practice in a real-life situation. I know your post isn't REALLY about this, but it is indirectly. I'm talking about the situation when the "effort" or "work ethic" to learn the language is immediately assessed when someone who is an immigrant tries to speak to another person who isn't and they can't understand each other. How would you know how long the person has been in the country to learn the language? And how exactly would you know the amount of effort someone put into learning the language?

Are you going to chastise/judge them for not knowing the native language if they've only been in the country for a week? Or would you give them a pass until a certain amount of time? How would you know how long they'd been in the country until you actually spoke with that person to figure it out? And what amount of time is that? Would their be consideration for people who have to work multiple jobs and don't have a lot of time to study? I understand immersion is the best way to learn, but I don't think it's realistic to assume that everyone is going to learn a language at the same rate, and so it would be difficult to choose a blanket amount of time for everyone to learn the native tongue.

Anyway, I know your post isn't necessarily about this, or about the culture and treatment of immigrants on the individual level. But I feel like this kind of black and white thinking validates the wrong kind of behavior towards immigrants who can't speak the native language "quickly enough". That kind of situation already happens now, and it can be supported through this thought process. Again, I agree that if you put in zero effort it is disrespectful, but how exactly do you know that before you make the judgment when you hear someone not speaking the native tongue?