Why do some people think that non-English speakers  are stupid or illiterate?
548302
I have been around alot of mexicans,for the past 10 years and most of them can speak english they just choose not to because of everything that goes on.so actually they are very smart people because can speak 2 languages,and write in both also.mexicans are good people that has to put up with alot of bull.
173106
As a child if I ever made fun of someone speaking with an accent, my mother would remind me that that person is smarter than you, they can speak at least two languages.\n\nAlso we must remember, that at one point most of our ancestors were from another country and also had an accent.\nif they could speak the english at all.\n\nAs for me I generally welcome people from other nations.\n\nPeople who do not in my opinion are simply ignorant.
218343
Because they don't understand that word order, tenses, etc. may be different in different lands. The same would be true if an English-speaking person tried using perhaps Spanish or French for the first time: it would sound funny to a Spanish or French-speaking person.
964807
There are all kinds of people here - some of them don't have a well developed sense of humor. Others have a hard time understanding humor from countries other than their own. Still others struggle with English and just don't get the humor at all.\n\nKeep on, smiling - for sure someone will get it!
317602
I'm afraid that some of us (foreigners) actually know a little English, and most of us seem to be able to spell a lot better than most of you from what I can see here.
97486
haha i hate it when people do that. i think it's because they're too ignorant to learn how to speak.
57168
I couldnt agree w/ you more.  I have found 2 reasons: 1. they are flat out lazy and dumb.  2. They have a very poor grasp of the english language.  If you cant read it, just report it and use the reason of bad spelling.  Its in the list.  Ive done it plenty of times and not ashamed to say it either.
779486
That's because our government has catered to them. Instead of following the laws that state they have to learn English. My feelings are if you live in a country learn the language. But our government gives them to many incentives to not learn our language.
362980
because people are basically stupid.
956846
They're not less intelligent that the rest of the world, it's just that a lot of American people don't care about the rest of the world and know nothing about it, and this is why a lot of people say they're stupid. But I think they are just unaware of the world around them, and it's not a cliché, I say it because I've spoken to a lot of American people who ddidn't even know for example when Iraq is, when they've been on war with this country for more than three years.\n\nSomething else typical of American people is that most of them don't speak any foreign language and expect everybody, everywhere they go, to speak English. And although it's true that everywhere you go you'll find easily people who speak English, it's still better to speak the local language, people will find you more friendly and will be more friendly to you.\n\nBut this all doesn't make American people less intelligent than the others, I think they just need to open up.
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Some people are truly less intelligent than others.  It isn't necessarily their fault, but we weren't all made equal.  Other people just see things from a different perspective than you can see them from.  Still other people appear to be stupid because they have a different value system than you do so that forces them to make a different decision, not necessarily better or worse, depends on their perspective.
684171
they can't learn English .  don't have the brain capacity
585650
The kinds of grammar "mistakes" that native speakers do are quite different from the kinds of grammar that non-native speakers use.  When native speakers read the grammar of non-native speakers, they often say, "Huh?" or "That's not English!" where, when they hear native-speaker English that doesn't meet their expectations, they still recognize it as English but say, "That person isn't well-educated."  A native speaker, for example, would never make a mistake with articles or prepositions, but non-native speakers make them frequently.\n\nSo what causes native speakers to "break" the rules then?  In many cases, spelling English is actually quite difficult for native speakers, so some spelling mistakes may be simply because they don't know how to spell the word.  We have to memorize spelling rules just like you did.  However, often new ways of spelling are actually different forms that are more appropriate for the online genre.  I think that most native speakers know that the word can be spelled "because", for example, but they use the form "becoz" because it's a form that is often used in online contexts.  So, in that way, they are simply using the written form that fits the context better.  Those who aren't part of the same social group might not recognize the new written form as a new form and rather interpret it as a mistake.  There are some words that now have two possible spellings: "through" and "thru" are both quite acceptable, and "tonight" and "tonite" are both quite common as well, for example.\n\nIn all languages, the language of the people of high status is considered to be the best form and often the language of people of low status is considered to be "uneducated" or "full of mistakes".  But this is not really true; they are simply forms that aren't accepted by society.\n\nPerhaps in your native language the spelling isn't as variable as it is in English, but because the spelling system of English is so far from the pronunciation, it is possible to have many potential spellings of a word, and spelling is a skill that children practice extensively in school, for example.\n\nWhether or not people get annoyed by different forms than the ones they expect depends on how much they want to use the differences in language to judge the person who created it, I imagine.  In other words, that "annoyance" is actually a form of linguistic discrimination.
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I'm sure your not the only one but u are talking about two kind of people which are very different from each other: \n\n1. people who can't learn English . so i wonder why would anyone feel bothered by people who can not learn??? do u also feel annoyed by people who can't learn other things??? well i know a person mentally not capable of learning another language and can't even formulate a sentence making  sense in his own language . should i feel bothered by this person or should i feel sorry for him and try to help him not because of his incapacity but because he is a human being?? .\n\n2. people who choose not to learn English . well about this kind of people i think this people are making a huge mistake . the English language is the most important language in the world just like Spanish is the second most important . in my opinion anyone who chooses not to learn any of the two having the capacity to do it  is making a huge mistake . \n\nabout people looking for a job and not finding it because they do not speak spanish , perhaps they were not hired because of their bad grammar and not because of they not speaking another language .
266651
Some people are not that smart. Or just lazy.\nYou have to remember, if you take the average person you must realize that half of the population is dumber than thay are.
721151
I think it's a combination of the fact that they don't know the language and because they are different (physical, cultural, etc.) from citizens.
935825
Because it's harder to be good.  And I don't really understand what else it is that you are trying to say.  It's kind of like it's harder for a person to learn how to write and speak proper English than it is not to so a lot of people don't.