By: Ashamed?

In reply to Whitney. Okay I'm ashamed, but I do ask that question. Not right off the bat or anything, but I have asked it in the past. What is so wrong with it? There was one occurrence when I was working a new job, and we would welcome international tourists. So at the beginning of the day, I tried asking everyone in my team for the day: "what languages do you speak?", so we could help the customers more efficiently. It was in Toronto, and I myself am French, and there were many nationalities in each team. Actually, that day, our 9-person team turned out to speak about 12 languages... That's Canada for you! Anyway. So I ask my question, and a 40-year-old Asian lady said she spoke Chinese, and she wasn't offended or anything. But the two other Asian teammates, who were about 20-25-years-old, were really offended by my question, answering "We're Canadian", and I kept on insisting "But don't you speak something else other than English?", and they wouldn't budge, "We're Canadian"... In the end, one was speaking Chinese and the other, Chinese and another Asian language I forgot... So I feel my question my legit... And probably the way I insisted was way insensitive... I might have said "But isn't your family from somewhere else, haven't you learnt another language, at all"... I don't know... Is it really that bad?? I don't usually consider myself a racist. Arrrr!!!