Unpopular Opinion Puffin

You might well know a transgender person where you live but they've just not shared that much about themselves with you for some strange reason.

Any chance you could learn a bit of conversational Spanish to help your customer service skills at work? It's not that hard to learn.

I have met/encountered a few transgender people in the past, but I am not currently in any contact with them. I have not met anyone who openly identifies as trans IRL for the past 2 years.

I took Spanish from 7th to 10th grade, but I am not catering to customers in it. I've noticed that many Hispanics will be snobby about how Spanish is spoken. In particular, I've noticed that they will mock Americanized Latinos who speak in "gringo" accents. So I don't feel bad for them when people get frustrated with them for not speaking English well.

Again, you might be in contact with someone who just hasn't shared that part of their life with you.

Spanish speaking people are generally very happy to help you with the language, particularly with pronunciation, if you're approaching it from a place of respect. It would surprise me if they were acting aloof to you in the absence of any mannerisms you're giving off to antagonize them.

So true. Americans, in general, will try to understand people speaking broken English. But when I lived on the Mexican boarder, I got laughed at by Hispanics when I tried to speak Spanish. So, I just stopped trying.

I had a coworker at my previous job who was an American-born Latina who grew up in North Carolina. She was always very self-conscious about speaking Spanish because she had a “gringo” accent. I felt bad for her. She was a sweet girl & I think she had a very nice voice.