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To: discostu

Not from my seat of the last 50 years in the mid-Atlantic. Did Lowe’s have Spanish signs and subtitles everywhere before 20 years ago? Did Hechingers or Home Depot? Did your doctors all have Spanish options on their phones? There is a lot of catering to illegals because liberals push all their narratives.

That’s my view. Meanwhile we have lots of Asians but nowhere do corporations cater to them with signage et al.


151 posted on 02/11/2024 8:41:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

You’re just not going to the right parts of town, or the radio dial. George Carlin had a whole routine about growing up listening to Spanish stations. I remember when one of my family members moved into a poor neighborhood in Tucson in the late 70s and going to visit them and suddenly the billboards were in Spanish and they were advertising radio and TV stations I’d never heard of. Not to mention the Mexican markets.

As for catering to Asians go to a neighborhood where they’re clustered. Service signage in San Francisco is in English, Spanish and Chinese. That was back in the 90s. I remember getting in a cab in Seattle in 2002 to find the cabby reading a newspaper in Russian. If there’s enough of a population of them to be worth marketing to somebody is going to.

You might be only encountering Spanish, and only recently, but that’s just because your life wasn’t taking you to those places. It happens. Last night was the first time I ever knowingly heard an Usher, my life doesn’t take me to the sections of the world he’s in. None of it is pushing any narratives, it’s chasing dollars. The American dream.


153 posted on 02/12/2024 6:27:30 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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