One issue about the whole "speaking English!!!" genre is that for the most part Americans perceive speaking another language as some sort of superpower. Mastering enough tourist French to order a meal and ask for the bill is not a task for mere mortals. And, yet, people get enraged that "furriners" here (even if legally, even if naturalized) might occasionally speak their native languages, even if only to each other. Fortunately most of the enraged don't bean someone in the face
with a beer mug over it, but...
