The problem I have with language learning chambers

Hello everyone, German here. I have to apologize but this post may be slightly controversial. I just want to exchange and therefore I am looking forward to your opinion. I have been learning a lot of foreign languages for years. Most of them I have learned autodidactically and I do appreciate very much the help I received from fellow learners on different platforms and especially on Reddit. It was always my dream to travel different countries and speak with the people there in their language. In the last 2 years I have traveled very much and could use all the languages I have learned so far and this was always a very good experience. Until three months ago. Three months ago, I traveled to my neighboring country France and spoke a little bit French to the people there. The reaction was very negative and they said to me things like “You are a German, you should speak German and not French”. I know this is a very bad behavior but I have to realize that there is a big problem with the way we see language learners in our societies. I think that generally people should be happy if someone is learning their language and showing interest in their culture but it seems not to be the case. One very big problem is that we do not see speaking foreign languages as a normal thing. If language learners would get more recognition, they would have more courage speaking the language and native speakers would be more happy about listening to someone speaking their language with mistakes. Furthermore, if we would generally see speaking foreign languages as a normal thing, then we would also be more interested to hear others speaking our language and trying to communicate with us. Native speakers would also realize that everyone is making mistakes while speaking. Distinguishing native speakers from non-native speakers will automatically lead to a negative perception of the language learner, because the native speaker is seen as someone who is automatically doing everything right. I think the best example is the native speaker definition of Wikipedia “a native speaker is a person who spoke the language from their very beginning and acquired it as children. Therefore, they have an innate sense of what sounds right or wrong in the language.” This is the reason why I think we should bring native and non-native speakers closer together. Both should have the same rights in speaking a language and both should be able to make mistakes. I think the best example is the English language. In many countries, English is not seen as a foreign language but just as a normal language. This also means that you can make mistakes speaking English, because native and non-native speakers are not to be distinguished. Mistakes are part of the learning and speaking process. I think that we as language learners should start to change our own perspective about language learners. The platforms that I have used so far are called language learning platforms, but the meaning of these platforms is much bigger. I think the name should be changed. We should call ourself polyglut community. Polyglut means speaking very many languages and a community is a group of people living together in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. We should be more proud to speak many languages and see this as a positive characteristic. In return, we should also be more happy about others speaking our language. I would be very happy to hear your opinion and I hope we can start to change our own perspective and give other people the chance to change their perspective.