DO YOU THINK THAT IF YOU WENT TO MEXICO CITY THAT THEY WOULD MAKE SPECIAL DEALS BECAUSE YOU CAN ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH, HELL NO, YOU WOULD STARVE TO DEATH BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T WORK. THIS IS AMERICA WE SPEAK ENGLISH AND ALL WHO COME HERE SHOULD REALIZE THAT AND ADJUST TO IT NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. WE ARE THE ON;Y COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO BE ACCOMODATING.
"DO YOU THINK THAT IF YOU WENT TO MEXICO CITY THAT THEY WOULD MAKE SPECIAL DEALS BECAUSE YOU CAN ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH, HELL NO, YOU WOULD STARVE TO DEATH BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T WORK. THIS IS AMERICA WE SPEAK ENGLISH AND ALL WHO COME HERE SHOULD REALIZE THAT AND ADJUST TO IT NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. WE ARE THE ON;Y COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO BE ACCOMODATING."
Well, all caps are a bit much, but I'll respond anyhow.
If you go to Mexico City, you'll be amazed at how many people there do speak English. You won't have to learn Spanish to visit there. In fact, that's the situation all over the world. English is spoken widely in most countries.
The reality is that tourists to the US (and we have lots and lots of them) often have a difficult time because they cannot find anyone who speaks their language. Generally, they have some English, since English is taught in the schools of most developed countries, but when the going gets tough, they find that locating a German, French, Japanese, or Russian speaker is very, very difficult. That's because we don't bother to teach languages any more in our schools.
Legal immigrants assimilate and learn English. It takes a while for that to happen in the first generation. It took a long time before the adult Swedish and Norwegian immigrants in the 19th century could speak English, too. Their children learned faster, but that's how it always goes.
The next generation, however, spoke unaccented English, while maintaining a bit of their old language. The third generation couldn't even speak Swedish or Norwegian.
Thus it is with the legal Spanish-speaking immigrants, too. In the meantime, the first generation adults will always struggle with English. Their kids will learn it well, and the third generation will barely be able to speak Spanish. I saw it in my California home town in the 50's and it's going on the same today.
Again, how many of the customers of that Dollar store do you suppose are Spanish-speakers. I'll bet it's a large percentage. Maybe the clerks' abilities to speak Spanish are a plus for the business. Maybe the boss just doesn't like hearing Spanish.
It's not that simple.