Charlize Theron Was Called Out for Speaking Afrikaans

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1. never assume others dont speak other languages.

2. Wish it was actually that she was being pulled up for speaking Afrikaans. What a horrible racist language of oppression

3. 3 percent ?but everywhere in south africa speaks afrikaans. Almost everyone

4. Eina!?
   Ek sou dieselfde ook doen, die probleem is dat Nederlandse mense jou ook verstaan.

5. Ja my bra moet basop ons moer julle engelse

6. I speak Dutch so I could understand

7. I am Swedish. That is 0.13% understanding what I am saying.

8. well that's what you get lol ?

9. 3%?..
   Google Tokelau Island!
   Our Language is an Endangered language…
   Not many people can speak our language or even understand it, Not even some of our people!

10. So Charlize Theron bleaches her anus…

    Good to know!

11. You Afrikaans people think that your language is so secret and yet we were all forced to learn it. We know what you're saying…always lol.

12. Say in Afrikaans: "I am dressing my adopted son like girl because it is part of my satanic religion"

13. Say in Afrikaans: "My mother killed my father"

14. Oh I thought the story was about somebody telling Charlize that this is "#Merica and to go the hell back to her country if she wanted to speak that shit"

    I guess that only happens when somebody speaks Spanish and is not a 10ft tall blonde superstar.

15. The most beautiful woman ever created of all time…

16. As someone with social anxiety… This is why i give people dirty looks when i dont know what they are saying — i assume the worst – doesnt help that my dad (who speaks dutch) called someone out who was insulting us in dutch because they thought we were dumb tourist from america who couldnt understand the language. best part is we are canadian

17. 1:03

18. Imagine being able to talk your native language without being told to go back to your country

19. at the fair I go to every year, all the carnies are from south africa. they’re always speaking to each other in afrikaans and I’ve wanted nothing more than to understand what they were saying about us americans haha

20. CLIT BAIT don't bother

21. "Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait till lunchtime."

22. I wouldn't use Afrikaans in front of Dutch speaking people either

23. i can't help but notice that the layout of the set is mimicking Graham Norton.

24. Reading these comments…too funny. What's crazy is I live in Texas. Sometimes I have a hard time finding someone who speaks my language..english…..Totally opposite experience. Lol

25. Isn't she just georgeous?!!!!

26. Might be that he could speak Dutch, there's a certain amount of understanding between the two…

27. I'm fluent in Lullaby a type of pig latin. I can't seem to find it on Google though. For example hi is pronounced hi la by.

28. Wow I had no idea she was South African. Is America real is anyone in Hollywood actually American ? It's amazing how many actors and actress I thought were American aren't.. James McAvoy, Gerald Buttler, Tom Holland, Kifer Sotherland, Kianu Reeves (butchering the names here) Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis.. The list is huge.

29. "This guy was being very rude"

    Yip, sounds White South African to me!

30. Umm, not 3%. About 3 million. Not the same. Also, just because that number speak Afrikaans natively or fluently, doesn't mean that that's all who understand it. It's very close to Dutch (something like 90-95% lexical similarity), and there are about 25 million Dutch speakers worldwide, who will understand Afrikaans more easily than Afrikaaners understand Dutch. Even if you only speak German (with some English), you can still get the gist of some of what's being said. The Dutch are a former global empire, and got everywhere from Central and South America in the West, to Taiwan and Indonesia in the East!

31. Rude…understands Afrikaans….he was probably Dutch =D =D =D

32. 3% of the world population speaks Afrikaans hahah wtf is she saying… there's almost 8 billion people LMAO.. not the smartest girl

33. Plot twist: It was the luggage area for a plane from South Africa to New York, and she's dumb.

34. If he was being literally a pushy jerk he deserved to have s**t talked about him! She should have replied that she hopes he will remember what she said next time he thinks about pushing past people.

35. When I was in School i had a biology teacher called Dr K and one day he told me off for talking in class so I called him a fucking asshole in Greek

    Then after class he called me over and said I understood what you said my last name is Kyriagos

    I had detection

36. She can speak whatever that fawk she likes.

37. Did she really say 3% of the world population speaks Afrikaans? ?

38. Every dutch person understands Afrikaans, also the half of belgian people and even a lot of german people.

39. It's New York.

40. Hollandse and Flaamse mense kan ook Afrikaans verstaan.

41. My mum did this once. In a NY perfume shop, there was a black guy working, in a Punjabi owned store, and heard her being rude about him in Punjabi. He turned around and said 'meno Punjabi samaj unde hai.' (I understand Punjabi). The look on her casually racist face. Bless.

42. Once in London, me and my friend were riding the taxi and we were busy speaking Portuguese and suddenly the driver, who was this older Indian gentleman, said something like "it's been a while since I heard that beautiful language". Me and my friend were stunned, not because we were talking smack about him, we weren't but because how random that was having an Indian in London understanding Portuguese. Then he proceeded to tell us how he was born in Goa, an ex Portuguese colony in India and his parents would speak Portuguese at home, and he still was able to understand.

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