Bilingual People Share Their Greatest “I Didn’t Know You Spoke the Language” Stories

Curious Time For a Lecture

I am Indian and speak Vietnamese. I was in an elevator with two Vietnamese women and a roughly three-year-old kid. The kid starts screaming and crying. One woman tells the other, “He doesn’t like people with black skin.” For the remainder of our ride, I lectured them in Vietnamese about how prejudices are learned behavior etc. They were mortified. AnhRacRoi