Quote Originally Posted by Atoli View Post
The person who does not understand is you.
I told you I'm learning Japanese, not because you told me to, but to show you, hey wait, it's possible to learn a language which is entirely different from your own!
Yes I know it's not easy, but it is possible. Learning English will maybe make things a lot easier for them if they ever leave their homeland, and a lot easier for other people who try to have fun on the same playground as them, too.
That's the other thing you don't understand:
I'm not saying "Oh my god! How dare they do not learn English, ignore them, bash on them, whatever!"
What I'm trying to say is that it's basic politeness to try being able to communicate with others, even if they do not speak your native language.
You can get by without being polite, but the other person will always feel kind of bad, and that's the reason why threads like this one are made.
This confirms that you don't get it.

The fact that learning any language is POSSIBLE doesn't make it mandatory or required.

For a Japanese learning English is much harder than for a westerner. It's a simple fact.

So you're basing your very personal (and very convenient) "rules of politeness" on something that's easy to do for you, and hard to do for them.

Sorry mate, but etiquette doesn't have double standards.

Btw, it would be a generalization if I ever said that all people speaking in their native language are like that.
I never did. All I said is that things like that happened to me. I described what I experienced. Where do you see a generalization?
The generalization is in the fact that you're trying to make it look like it was the norm. And it isn't.