A moment of intense embarrassed laughter: if you are organizing an event that’s supposedly inclusive of people from Latin America, it might be advisable not to open a debate asking, in English “Is there anyone who doesn’t speak English?”. Silence followed until someone, cunningly pointed out “Non English speakers might not understand what you just asked”.
The person asking didn’t know how to say this in Spanish so, one of “us” repeated the question and, indeed, a few hands were raised.
At which point (and it was my first queue that something was just not right), everything continued… in English.
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