I doubt it.
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Posted on 05/28/2012 5:10:26 AM PDT by IbJensen
Mexico, along with all of central and south America do not offer options as to whether one wants Spanish or English which makes one wonder why our nation is so damned stupid!
“Press 1 For English...”
“1” is bad enough - I’ve encountered situations where English has been demoted to “2” or even “3” or “4”...
Sadly, though in no hurry for the Good Lord to punch my ticket, I no longer cling to this oft repeated lament.
As someone who served in the USAF (and in Nam for 18 months) and who grew up as most Patriotic Americans did for the past 200 years, I LOVE my Country and always considered it "EXCEPTIONAL" and thought it would ALWAYS be one which led the way and stood athwart to the desires and ambitions of despots and dictators as well as being the most successful "Experiment" in achievement, freedom, ect., ever known to Mankind.
Now, I must admit that I'm glad I won't be around in another 30 - 40 years as the way our Country is (apparently) headed, those of us alive today and around in the mid 21st Century, will probably not recognize it as the United States of America and it might very well turn into just another of the many 3rd World and Socialist Countries which populate the Globe; that is, if we are not by then, an "Islamic Repbulic."
It is assumed America is multi-cultural (actually, multi-cultural means, conclaves within the US that refuse to be American).
I can remember (but not the year ... the '70's ?) the offer to press 1 for English started and I wondered .. wtf? .. who started this and why?
Really ... I had travelled a fair bit (hitching across the US twice, Boston to Cal .. (once the southern route, once the northern) and though I met a LOT of different people, and smoked a lot of dope with them .. I never met anyone that seemed to want their own different identity via language.
I think this whole 'press 1 for English' shit was one of those great marketing coups that are up there with the subliminal blowjob Coke ads ... Madison Ave just laughing their collective asses off.
I doubt it.
The end result of this is a bifuraction of this country with the Spanish speakers at a marked disadvantage and with new reasons for anger: their children will not be assimilated fully and will not be capable of full technical English for advanced education and the higher-paying jobs.
It's resisting the tide, I guess but I almost never buy products with parallel language labelling, I complain to parent companies about Spanish-language advertising (I once got MacDonalds to remove a billboard advertising in Spanish in my neighborhood), and I refuse to answer anyone in Spanish when addressed in that language.
e pluribus unum with an emphasis on "unum". That unifier is language and we have to resist all these attempts to divide this country through language.
I think that there are a few states that we ENGLISH speaking American Patriots need divorcing from.
LLS
Also, Michael Savage has been harping on this for years: "Borders, Language, Culture".
Also Pat Buchanan. But, he's hated because people have been convinced he's anti-Semitic.
But, 22 years ago this was written. Now it's all coming true but still the majority of American cower at the thought of being called racist.
The Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster (1990)
An essay on multi-culturalism and immigration.
Excerpt....
How can we account for this remarkable silence? The answer, as I will try to show, is that when the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 was being considered in Congress, the demographic impact of the bill was misunderstood and downplayed by its sponsors. As a result, the subject of population change was never seriously examined. The lawmakers’ stated intention was that the Act should not radically transform America’s ethnic character; indeed, it was taken for granted by liberals such as Robert Kennedy that it was in the nation’s interest to avoid such a change. But the dramatic ethnic transformation that has actually occurred as a result of the 1965 Act has insensibly led to acceptance of that transformation in the form of a new, multicultural vision of American society. Dominating the media and the schools, ritualistically echoed by every politician, enforced in every public institution, this orthodoxy now forbids public criticism of the new path the country has taken. “We are a nation of immigrants,” we tell ourselves— and the subject is closed. The consequences of this code of silence are bizarre. One can listen to statesmen and philosophers agonize over the multitudinous causes of our decline, and not hear a single word about the massive immigration from the Third World and the resulting social divisions. Opponents of population growth, whose crusade began in the 1960s out of a concern about the growth rate among resident Americans and its effects on the environment and the quality of life, now studiously ignore the question of immigration, which accounts for fully half of our population growth.
This curious inhibition stems, of course, from a paralyzing fear of the charge of “racism.” The very manner in which the issue is framed—as a matter of equal rights and the blessings of diversity on one side, versus “racism” on the other—tends to cut off all rational discourse on the subject. One can only wonder what would happen if the proponents of open immigration allowed the issue to be discussed, not as a moralistic dichotomy, but in terms of its real consequences. Instead of saying: “We believe in the equal and unlimited right of all people to immigrate to the U.S. and enrich our land with their diversity,” what if they said: “We believe in an immigration policy which must result in a staggering increase in our population, a revolution in our culture and way of life, and the gradual submergence of our current population by Hispanic and Caribbean and Asian peoples.” Such frankness would open up an honest debate between those who favor a radical change in America’s ethnic and cultural identity and those who think this nation should preserve its way of life and its predominant, European-American character. That is the actual choice—as distinct from the theoretical choice between “equality” and “racism”—that our nation faces. But the tyranny of silence has prevented the American people from freely making that choice.
It makes me very mad to see all the signs in Spanish, to read about school district where whole classes are taught in Spanish... How are those people going to learn? We are not doing them any favor when we "make it easy" for them. But I reserve my biggest outrage for the idea that a person can request to take the naturalization exam in his or her language! I thought that speaking English was one of the requirements for naturalization (it is, really) so why would people take the exam in a different language?
When God wanted to destroy a civilization, He confused their languages. It worked at Babel, why should we expect anything different in America?
Today we have immigrants who are happy to come here to escape the dung hole countries where they live, get ample government benefits in doing so, but with the help of the PC crowd have no incentive to learn the English language or even to see themselves as Americans. They want all the benefits of living in America, but want to live under the cultures where they came from and then complain when American ideas like freedom of religion and religious tolerance conflict with their third world mindset. I am especially irked when I see women and young girls covered head to foot dutifully following behind men dressed in western clothing chattering in their own tongue in shopping malls like it was a bazaar in some third world dung hole, paying for their food with EBT and complaining that they NEED special treatment in their jobs, schools etc. not given to anyone else just because of THEIR beliefs. Visiting Minneapolis (a.k.a New Mogadishu)is becoming like going to a third world country.
Where I live, signs are very often in Spanish only. They don’t even bother with an English translation underneath. Songs and announcements over stores’ PA systems are in Spanish. I get junk mail, phone recordings and sometimes even bills in Spanish. People come up to me in public and start jabbering away in Spanish, assuming that of course I speak it, and acting put out when I tell them I don’t. You can’t channel surf or turn the dial on the radio without coming across one Spanish-language station after another, after another. And on and on.
No, we are not going to be a bilingual nation. We are going to be a SPANISH-SPEAKING nation.
Think it’s annoying to “Press 1 for English”? Just wait. As California goes, so goes the nation.
The same at the Atlanta airport.
Lots of foreigner tourists but lots more of new immigrants trying to learn English.
And then there is that totally foreign Southern Negro-Cajun language that is totally incomprehensible.
“Press 1 For English: Is America Destined To Become A Multilingual Nation?”
I think it’s a little late to be asking that.
More appropriate questions:
How much longer will America -exist- as a multilingual nation?
And what comes afterwards?
“I, for one, shudder when I hear a DemocRAT or a RepublicRAT speak of the strength of our nation being a result of our ‘diversity.’”
It is completely illogical. Since when do you make anything stronger by dividing it?
However, I DO get my back up when I go to Lowes or Home Depot, and on one occasion, Wal-Mart, and see Spanish signs on the aisles. Border cities I can see, but 400 miles inland is something else.
I used to be a night stocker at W-M and always made a point to load boxes of merchandise, usually kitchenware, with the English version facing outward. One night I was rearranging the boxes when a supervisor asked why I was messing with stuff already on the shelves. I told him that a Hispanic guy asked me why W-M thought they were too stupid to learn English and had boxes placed so that Spanish was visible.
The supervisor asked me what I told the customer. I said that W-M was no different from other corporations who catered to the Hispanics as they would sell their daughters or heritage if it meant increasing the bottom line. I got a deer-in-headlight look, and thought sure I would be canned (no loss, it was a beer-money job as I was retired), but he never bothered me again. I liked to think that maybe I opened his eyes, but he was a Lifer, so you never know.
No, there are millions of parasites on this planet who have no intention of ever doing a useful day's work as long as they live.
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