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Air travel has gotten more violent. Flight attendants want training to fight back.

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This echos for healthcare workers and social services too. You can't imagine the physical and verbal abuse. Especially if you work in the ED. Where I work, we have self-defense and workplace violence training every year. Statistics say something like 30-60% have been assaulted before (a very easy Google). There's so much more that goes un-reported.

And yeah, sometimes it's the legitimate agitated patient with altered mental status, but more than often it's just shitty entitled people who would normally go to jail, except they do it in the hospital setting and it gets swept under the rug. Because management sucks, and police sucks.

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Spanish expressions in US's English - are they common?

We see and hear a lot of Spanish in California. So many road and city names are in Spanish. It’s the #1 foreign language to take in school. Hispanics are the #1 minority in California, maybe even the majority. At the very least you would know food names. If you go get street tacos, depending on their English proficiency, there’s a chance you may have to use some Spanish to order lol. Also people might speak and throw in some Spanish words in a funny ha ha way. Not everyday, but it wouldn’t be uncommon. It’s all very natural.