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To: BBQToadRibs

I used to work with a Mexican girl whose father used to yell at her for speaking Spanish.

“No, no, NO! You are in America. You are an American now. You MUST speak English!”


35 posted on 08/03/2018 2:04:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That was the attitude of my 9legal) immigrant grandparents.

At home they spoke the mother tongue, but around Americans and out in public, it was English, no matter how difficult it was.

It was both pride and courtesy.

They were in American and Americans, and they didn’t want someone to think they were talking about them behind their backs.

That was class from a bunch of dirt poor peasant farmers.


36 posted on 08/03/2018 2:08:53 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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