I’m asking this because I’m a non-American who makes outbound calls to the States for a living.
If you, a Hispanic, were to answer the phone to someone who understood Spanish, would that make you more likely to respond to the person? Or that wouldn’t affect your favorability at all?
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I don’t like being telemarketed regardless of cultural affinity so no.
No
Yes, but everyone is still going to generally be mean to telemarketers so I can’t imagine it would be noticeable
Like a cold call telemarketer?
There is nothing that could impact my opinion of you in a positive way.
Most Americans, regardless of language, don’t like telemarketers and they’re often regarded as scammers.
I don’t like people in general. Déjenme en paz.
Depends on what the call was about. In general, Americans are pretty friendly regardless of race, color, or language — honestly, more so than in any other country I’ve lived in or visited.
That said, if someone calls me out of the blue, they’d better have a good reason. Otherwise, I’m going to be rude. Speaking the same language doesn’t make a telemarketer any less annoying.
Oh, buddy, if you think latinos in America (doesn’t matter if you just mean the US or the continent) are friendly to each other….
Ask a Cuban-American what they think of immigrants.
In general yeah, but teleprompters are universally hated
If I don’t recognize your number I ain’t answering
Look at Nury Martinez and her comments that were caught on tape a few years ago that killed her political career:
>Martinez, a descendant of Mexican immigrants who became the first Latina to be elected as [Los Angeles] city council president [in 2019], made inflammatory comments while discussing redistricting with two other council members, saying that fellow councilmember Mike Bonin’s son, who is Black, “looked like a monkey.” She also referred to Oaxacans, people from the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, as “little short dark people” and “ugly.” Oaxaca has one of Mexico’s largest Indigenous populations.
No. Depending on where you’re both from, Hispanics can have quite negative feelings about each other.
No one is friendly to a telemarketer
Please quit calling us!!
They have special pricing for each other’s work or products.
Are you talking cold-call sales? I’m not sure that’s language dependent.
To the topic more broadly, it is very common for call centers in (or servicing) the US to service multiple languages. If you call any customer service number listed in the US you get a message:
>Thank you for calling customer service at Acme Corporation! If you know the number of the extension you are trying to reach you can dial that now. For service in Spanish, press 2, for English or for translation services for other languages press 2 or stay on the line.
It will vary by company, but something similar will be pretty common. No one is surprised to encounter language options whatsoever, in fact it is more unusual for a larger company to not have language options. A company with only one or two people answering the phone may only have English (and dial-in a third-party service for translation) but any company with about four or five-plus at the phone will have multiple languages available. Heck, you can even walk into a bank or grocery store in any average city and have six to twenty language options available; the local bank branch has five windows and something like a dozen languages for in-person services, more if they call the contracted translation service who connect you to a translator. My city seeks translation services for 140+ languages in an average year (for schools, courts, hospitals, etc) and we’re not even in the top-ten language-heavy cities in the US.
To your point — no one will be caught off guard if you offer to make your sales pitch in Spanish. That doesn’t mean they will be more amenable to the sale (no one likes cold calls), but language won’t be the reason they decline unless they’re a complete asshole in which case you wouldn’t want to talk to them anyway.
no, telemarketers are never cool and everyone else can be regardless of they speak spanish
I’m Hispanic and can’t speak Spanish lmao
My dad never taught me, and my mom is white
No. We’d hang up just as fast in either language.
Plus, a lot of Hispanics in the US don’t speak Spanish or prefer English even if they do speak Spanish. They were born here, parents, grandparents, etc etc were born here.
Homicides in America are usually between .members of the same “race.”
Kindly and yeah Latinos are genuinely nice on the phone when dealing with each other in Spanish.
Kindly and yeah Latinos are genuinely nice on the phone when dealing with each other in Spanish.
Nobody likes spam/scam calls, doesn’t matter what race/ethnicity you are
If you’re a cold caller, there’s nothing you could do to make me like you, regardless of what you look like.
it would at least lead to a quick chat from what i have seen
People ignore telemarketers in general because it’s annoying.
I’m Whitesican, I have family that’s white, Mexican, black, and all sorts of other things. I can tell you that it doesn’t matter what your race is, no one likes telemarketers. Even friends of mine that have had that job, hate getting those calls lol.
But if they are Mexican, it makes it easier for them to hang up. They will just pretend they don’t understand and hang up on you lol
I asked my wife, she said she doesn’t give a fuck. I do know from living around a lot of Mexicans, that the older generation or the first gen people who don’t really speak English, very much appreciate it when you switch to Spanish for them…obviously.
US nobody wants to disappear into the melting pot. Everyday I ride the elevator with Hispanics speaking Spanish. They speak English but take pride in staying Hispanic (not to intentionally exclude others, that’s just a byproduct.)
>If you, a Hispanic, were to answer the phone to someone who understood Spanish, would that make you more likely to respond to the person?
No.
It’s just a language. A Spanish-speaker isn’t going to fall in love with a telemarketer that speaks Spanish.
Yes but like others have said, if you’re a telemarketer my reaction isn’t gonna change because you’re speaking Spanish to me.
I don’t like telemarketers.