Posted on 09/08/2009 2:32:28 PM PDT by Justaham
At the Norwalk town hall meeting on health care, Rep. Jim Himes (CT-04) takes question in Spanish from Stamord Bishop Emilio Alvarez. Himes was born in Peru and is fluent in Spanish.
Town hall crowd reacts when the bilingual "cleric" insists on disrespecting everyone and speaking a language they don't understand. The man speaks perfect English but obviously wants to upset the town hall for his own racist reasons.
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I have upset more than a few of my bilingual friends who ask me if i speak spanish and if I don’t, why; and I plainly tell them “because this is America.” I refuse to learn any more than the bit I understand or speak what I do know on the principle it will only encourage others to not use English. It is petty to most, but if I’m going to learn another language it’ll be something like German or Dutch. I love the way they sound.
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Speaking spanish in front of people who don’t speak spanish is disrespectful and this guy knows it.
I think he got exactly what he wanted.
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