Thread: Things that are common in fiction but not in your real life
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Old 04-01-2021, 08:33 AM   #155
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post

When I flew to Germany a number of years ago, the stewardesses spoke to me in German and the rest of my family in English. I look German, blonde with blue eyes. Everyone else has dark hair. Some of us are just lucky.
This reminded me of a YT video where a group of L1 Japanese speakers of non-Japanese ethnicity took a monolingually Anglophone Japanese-American to a cafe and the wait staff ignored all the Japanese speakers and spoke only to the one person in the group who literally could not understand a word being said to them.
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