Is it rude to speak in your own language when others are present?

[Le_Pakistan]

Re: Is it rude to speak in your own language when others are present?

@Reha

In the work place…I tend not to speak Urdu with non-desies are around. Not because I am embarrassed. But because I find it rude.

I had one such experience today. Someone came up to me and wanted to speak Urdu in front of a bunch of non-desi people. I responded but since the others were also there…switched back quickly to English and kinda translated what I had said as well.

Do you guys find it rude to purposefully alienate someone like that?

In the case you have mentioned I don’t think it is rude. The non-desi people, were they customers or colleagues? Either way, you were having a one to one conversation with that person, so others don’t have anything to do with what you two were discussing or in which lkanguage you were discussing it. You didn’t even need to translate it for them.

Rude it is when you all are interacting/working together in a group and two people start talking to each other in a different language.