Originally Posted by
SamOF
Interesting—I look like I might have just hopped off a coach class from AMS, FRA, CDG, or FCO. Despite the fact that DTW has more flights to those destinations than they do to asia, I've never been asked if I speak English there.
I wonder why that would be?

Maybe because the percentage of white people in that situation who don't know English is far, far lower than the percentage of Asian people in that situation who don't know English?