I'm just popping in to share something...
Do you know that video "but we are speaking Japanese!" and the fenomenon of the Japanese responding to their native tongue in English? 
I was so irritated by it's mere existence, even though I never experienced it, cause I'm going to Japan soon...
And then it hit me; my neighbour is Italian. He just moved in recently and he's  learning Polish. 
I was thinking about the fenomenon earlier that day, and he greeted me in Polish just a few hours later. I was taken aback for a moment and then I said "hello".
;_;;;
So I started thinking about it and realized that none of us Poles in the building (3 families) really know his last name. We call him mister Italian (in Polish).
Am I going to hell???

[Zgarbas]

Japan only stands out cause it has a lot of middle-class Westerners talking about it. It's a normal phenomenon in any country. I do feel sorry for the foreign-born Japanese people but it is by no means an isolated phenomenon.
You should try talking to your neighbour sometimes; i'm sure he'll be glad about it

I used to hang out with an Italian plumber back in the 90s, never knew his last name. Turns out, it's Mario. His full name is Mario Mario.

[Zgarbas]

^ reality is stranger than fiction.
Did he ever go 'its'a me, Mario'?

(9 hours ago)Stansfield123 Wrote: I used to hang out with an Italian plumber back in the 90s, never knew his last name. Turns out, it's Mario. His full name is Mario Mario.

lol It reminds me of this meme (if anyone is offended, gomen):