I know that apparently, some American travelers put Canadian flags on their luggage or carry on then claiming they’re from Canada (the dead giveaway on debunking this is their passport, since how can you be “Canadian” when you have US citizenship unless you’re a dual citizen in possession of both nationalities) since some of them have hatred towards the US or feel ashamed of the country due to its internal affairs.
I’ve had Americans here in Spain ask me to speak English as they don’t speak Spanish.
I was speaking to them in English. I am English
Just cements the proof they often respond without thinking
Just kind of flipping that script a little, I work in 911 dispatch, and we get a lot of calls from Spanish speakers.
Sometimes we’re lucky enough to have a Spanish speaking dispatcher on duty, so if they’re not on another call, I can transfer them over, and almost without fail the conversation goes like this
Me (English): 911, where is your emergency?
Caller (broken English): uh… Speak Spanish?
Me (broken Spanglish): ok, let me get you a Spanish speaker, un momento Transfers caller
Spanish Dispatcher (in Spanish): 911 where is your emergency?
Caller: Ok
Spanish Dispatcher: repeats in Spanish
Caller: uh… Speak Spanish?
Spanish Dispatcher (in Spanish): Yes sir (or ma’am,) I’m speaking to you in Spanish, where is your emergency?
Caller: oh! continues in Spanish
When I lived in Japan, if I was out with my wife people would always speak to her (she was Japanese). My Japanese was reasonably good, and my wife said that there were no real issues with my grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation, but still people didn’t understand me because I was a foreigner and they knew they couldn’t understand foreigners.