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As a fluent speaker of foreign I can confirm that is racist.

Ah, but you can also speak English. There's something about speaking any number of languages but not English which predisposes one to crime.

I see your irony, but that's actually a specific case of a more general rule. Not speaking the predominant language of the place you live in will make your life more difficult and cut you off from the people and culture around you. It doesn't take much to see it as a precursor to crime, statistically speaking of course.

In many developing countries it is the other way round, expat enclaves where hardly anyone speaks the local language can be safer than the surrounding areas.

>> that is racist.

> speaking [...] not English which predisposes one to crime.

Even in jest, this perpetuates the view that unless they speak English in one's presence they should be viewed as having a propensity to crime.

edit: /s fail. toned down the personal.

I think you need to read the parent comment with a /s at the end.

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