While funny, there is a fundamental failing with that picture.WhatIsThisIDontEven said:
True story bro
I can not speak for all Americans mind you, but the failing is that the picture is ignoring both the issue and roles. In the first panel, the man behind the counter is speaking English. Sure, it's broken English, and there are some Americans I'm sure who are that bloody anal as to react like a twelve year old to it, but the vast majority? We honestly wouldn't care. If the point gets across, good on you. I mean hell, this is a country where I personally know college students that have tried to turn in papers with "txt" talk in them. Grammar really doesn't seem important to the general populace despite what the internet would have you belive. However, let's say the man behind the counter had been speaking Spanish. He's behind the counter, at a place of business, in a country where the primary language is English. First of all, it's safe to say that if he works in America, he probably lives America, border towns not withstanding. He should learn English. Second of all, he works at a job, where he interacts, verbally, with English speaking people all day. I'm sorry, yes, again, he needs to learn English.
As to the second frame, it misses the point of the argument again. Yes, I'm well aware of the truth that our tourists apparently draw their population from the most loud and asshole-ish among us, and for that I really, truly, am sorry a thousand times over, but the point is that the man who works there is now German. He's speaking German, while living in Germany, at a job in Germany. You can see why I like this man and feel that he makes sense. Thus, he is a perfect example of how you logically live in a country with one major speaking language, and speak it yourself. It was up to the tourist to either learn German, or stay in his "safe" little tourist area where being an American asshole is all but expected and leave the people just trying to live their lives the hell alone.
It's a fun comic, but in order to have worked properly the second panel would have needed to have an American completely missing the point by working at the job in Germany, without knowing German, while a German customer tried to do, well, anything constructive.
TDLR; No, read it. Else-wise go watch TV.