text: why are many americans so culturally insensitive? i was recently on a business trip to texas and i noticed that when people were speaking to me they often spoke loudly and slowly. my usual respose was (in a slow condicending way) "i understand you, there is no need to yell at me, if i couldn't speak the language i wouldn't be asking you".  it just annoys me as i really don't see that much in vancouver, my hometown. for that matter i haven't experienced anything like that in my travels to other places. do most people of indian origin in america need people to yell and speak slowly to them? think of it like this. i wouldn't call it so much culturally insensitive as it is stupid, because if they were culturally insensitive, they would make fun of you because your race. saying things slow, they are more dumb because they see the race that you are and they automatically think they need to speak slow. that has nothing to do with cultural insensitivity, that has to do with the amount of intelligence a person has. i used to live in texas. trust me, some people, depending on where your living, are quite slow and dumb, so i wouldn't think much about that particular thing.