Given the problem of gentrification, which has been observed in several cities and magical towns in Mexico, the debate has been opened on social networks and in the media about why the native residents of these towns, in addition to being eventually displaced by the increase in rents and eviction, they must speak the language of the new foreign inhabitants.
In recent days and as one of many examples of this problem, the case of Eva Sandwichería, a local located in Colonia Condesa in Mexico City, went viral. A TikTok user reports that the owner of this Mexican place complained on Twitter that there were American and French customers demanding that they be served in their respective languages.
Given this fact, the owner reported on Twitter that she asked her employees to serve in Spanish, especially those customers who demanded service in English and French.
The TikTok user reports that, contrary to what many Mexican followers and customers expected, a group of users of the social network agreed to leave negative reviews on the Google Maps business profile of Sandwichería Eva and to comment that the employees should begin to learn English and French, this in a context in which basic education in most cases is deficient in terms of languages and in which not all Mexicans have the economic possibility of paying for English or French classes. some other language.
The argument of the users who acted against the premises was that for them it is correct that English begins to naturalize, because according to examples cited by said users, when there have been Mexicans who visit countries like Germany, they have been treated in English.
A good part of the comments on the user’s video were in support of Eva Sandwichería, from followers who invited people to leave positive reviews of the place. Other users who questioned in the comments why in Mexico employees are forced to speak the language of tourists and new foreign inhabitants, when they have had to speak at least in English during their visit to the United States or European countries because their population In general, he does not speak Spanish.
The TikTok user closes his video with the famous phrase that the worst enemy of a Mexican is another Mexican. What would you do if you found yourself in a situation like that of the owner of this place?
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