My office has a lot of Spanish speaking people. I find rudeness really depends on the situation. Sometimes its obvious that they sort of slip into Spanish because that's their first language. However, when they do, one of them will usually look toward those of us who don't speak that language and say something like "sorry, we were saying we might need an earlier flight in order to make the meeting on time." I think that's a great way of including people around you who can't understand you. Its not like you're in a setting of having a private conversation when there's a group present.
Years ago, I worked with some girls who spoke Spanish and they'd sit in the breakroom and talk about other people who were in there. Every day at lunch, they'd be at a table gossping in Spanish. Now, I'm not totally comfortable speaking Spanish, but I did take it for three years in high school and three years in college so I understand A LOT. I'll never forget this one day when a client spoke to me in Spanish because he couldn't speak English. I had no choice but to answer him and continue a conversation in Spanish. The look on the gossipy Latina girls faces were priceless. They never spoke Spanish around me again, because they knew I could understand them. Hilarious.
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