For the past several years, my Brazilian friend has been teaching me French. We used to converse in Portuguese when we found ourselves in unfriendly Hispanic parts of Dallas, TX. Lately, however, we have been resorting to FRENCH, and it's GOOD to have an EXTRA language handy. The REASON my friend insists on something OTHER than English or Spanish in hostile Hispanic territory is because she HATES it that Hispanic racists RATTLE ON in SPANISH in PUBLIC with NO consideration for OTHERS, yet THEY demand to know EVERYTHING said by people using a language UNINTELLIGIBLE to them. Because SHE is an immigrant HERSELF, my Brazilian friend KNOWS JUST HOW to handle this situation. She DISCREETLY (yet DIRECTLY!) reminds Hispanic conversational meddlers, "THAT'S how AMERICANS who DON'T know Spanish feel when YOU blabber in SPANISH in FRONT of them! If what YOU say to one another in Spanish is NOBODY ELSE'S business, then what other people tell one another in THEIR own language is NONE of YOUR business, either!" My Brazilian friend is GREAT! She CUTS foreign racists BOTH ways!