I'm saying that the language barrier encourages the cultural problem. Obviously, they can just be snakes all the time anyway. I've just experienced being around people that use their 2nd language to be terrible to people in their presence. It was a point of contention with my ex-gf's family. I didn't tell them I knew spanish and what I witnessed is people being terrible. They openly talk shit about people because they treat their language as an armor that protects them from being rude af. The think is, it just brings out the shittiness that already exists. I told them that how rude it is to talk about people like that in general and it doesn't matter they don't understand them. It's a pea-brained notion that because they don't understand your language they must be stupid and are thus open for derision.

I understand both spanish and chinese and I have witnessed this bullshit from both. I think it's a human problem. I've even discussed this with my cousin who is a nurse for an ICU. There are a lot of Filipino nurses in Cali and they have a tendency to speak Tagalog with each other around patients who don't understand them. Well my cousin is married to a Filipino woman and understands the language. He said it's shocking and disgusting what they say about a patient sitting right in front of them. Calling them fat and ugly. Implying they won't give them good care because they are black or white. One nurse got fired because one of the nurses said she was intentionally not giving a patient pain meds because she thought he should suffer. He told HR and they found out that she was indeed withholding meds and taking them elsewhere.