You Chinese if you ask everybody who yellow if can speak Chinese. You yellow, you can speak Chinese, no?
Doesn't it goddamn anger you when some obnoxious Chinese person comes up to you and yells in your face, "You speak Chinese?!"
For fook's sake! This is Canada! Speak some English or take some English lessons. I know, I know, you've been here for over a decade and you only hang out where other Chinese people are, so your English is worse than when you left China. At least don't YELL then!
I don't mind so much when people ask me in Chinese if I can speak Chinese, which makes a lot more sense. That way, if I give them a blank stare, they'll understand. If they ask in English... man, that is annoying. FIRSTLY, there are many dialects of Chinese, so be specific! Some people ask me if I can speak Chinese and when I say yes, they start blabbing away in some dialect I can't understand. C'mon, name the dialect! Re-phrase your question, "Do you speak Mandarin?"
I am Chinese, so it's not so aggravating when Chinese people ask me if I can speak Chinese (the yelling is another story)... but what if I was Korean for fook's sake?! Imagine a Korean guy working in a Chinese area... I imagine he'd get pissed off daily. Next time someone annoying asks me if I speak Chinese, I'll say, "I'm Korean/ Japanese/ Vietnamese/ Thai/ Laotian/ Mongolian/ Burmese/ Cambodian/ Filipino/ Malaysian/ Tibetan/ Indonesian/ or Eastern Russian."
