How people irk me in French and Mandarin

In today’s post, I reflect upon how things have changed in France because when I used to live in France back in the 1990s, nobody would speak to me in English at all. However, today, these young French people can’t wait to show off to me just how fluent they are in English. And then there are these Chinese people from China who assume that I can’t speak Mandarin and they want to struggle on with me in English. Look if I do speak your language, then why wouldn’t you speak to me in your language?