Posted on 07/08/2007 6:44:42 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
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Take a look at their hidden agenda: http://www.mexica-movement.org
Yep!
In Texas, non-hispanic whites are only a third of the age group 0-5.
“f my children were to be multi-lingual it should be in the language of another first-world country”
Well, in all fairness, Spain is in fact a first world country.
T’anks...phonetic of course.
I remember the first time that I sat in class a new little girl asked a question in Spanish and the teacher said, I can not understand what you are saying.
The little girl then repeated the question in broken English and the teacher answered her.
After wards, I had a discussion with the Superintendent of the school system and asked him why the no Spanish rule.
He said that many of the parents of the children attending our school system do not speak English well or not at all.
By requiring the children to speak English and read in English at home will ultimately help the parents learn to communicate better.
What is also surprising is that I have yet to talk with any Hispanic parents in town who do not support this rule 100 percent.
Who is saying the kids don’t learn English? It’s saying the kids learn two languages, which “stretches” their little brains and makes ‘em smarter.
“Mexican” is not a dialect of Spanish (Spanglish may be a dialect... you have to take that up with the Academia Real), though one wonders which of the 27 recognized dialects of English in the United States is considered “proper” English. Except for maybe specific vocabulary words, Mexicans of all social classes speak proper Spanish, though a few Nahuatl words (jitomate) are sometimes used in place of the Spanish one (which, like the English one, is Nahuatl based). Social class accents are rare in Spanish... one can’t always tell if one is speaking to a doctor or the receptionist on the phone, for example.
Someone up above had the oddball idea that “Spanish is not a ‘first world’ language.” What nonsense. And, the nuns in the Alzheimer’s study (a German family name, used in both English and every other language for a particular disease) often spoke oddball languages like Ukrainian or Sicilian as their other language.
Finally, why are people assuming South Texans who speak Spanish are immigrants? In my county, Spanish has been the majority language as long as the county has been part of the United States.
As one who has adopted a child with a vocabulary of 10-20 English words and having the child now capable of reading on a 3rd grade level in two years, I can attest for some kids, immersion is the only way they'll learn English sufficiently.
Other kids' greatest problems lie where they return to a home setting in which other family members are English illiterate.
No hypocracy.
Even the Chinese, of which a quarter of the Earth’s population speaks Mandarin (spoken by more people than any other language) recognize that in international commerce, medicine, and science English is the common denominator language of success.
But then if you’ve ever tried to read Chinese arithmatic, it’s understandable....
Only one point I tried to make is that 'bilingual' means 90% mexican and as the demands of illegals increase greater and greater numbers of American kids will be learning some mix of debased English and debased Spanish. Even fewer of them than today will take up German, Chinese, or Japanese - each of which has more value in the world than does border Spanish. As it is we have to rely on native born speakers for most intelligence gathering and most business intercourse - I don't think all those Gringo kids are going seriously challenge the millions of "Native Spanish" speakers we've allowed in. The entire concept is merely an appeasement to the uninvited and a means to further divide the populace.
A second point I should have made, and made clearly, is that mexico is our enemy, not its people. However, when a crappy third raate country uses its citizens against my country, I expect collateral damage on both sides and, so far, its been our side taking the hits.
And, a total of none of the 27 dialects of English in the US are considered "proper". I don't think there are any "proper" dialects left in the UK for that matter.
This sounds innocent enough, but it has several drawbacks: Learning English is necessary if you want a good paying job. Those who don’t end up in the bottom quarter. English binds us together as a nation, without it we’re Babylon redux...(and if kids want to learn Spanish, they can sign up for Spanish courses.) Hispanic kids make up 50 per cent of school drop outs, not only in the west/southwest, but in the northeast.
When polled, they said the top three reasons for dropping out were peer pressure, to get a job (to augment family income), and something else inane, which I can’t remember at the moment. They were asked if school work was too hard, and they said NO. They should learn English and get real. Life is tough...unless you’re Paris Hilton, and if you can’t speak English, it’s even harder.
I don't think I made a clear point...and I agree with what you say. I felt it was hypocritical for this English-speaking Hispanic journalist to be vehemently against making English mandatory even though he admits you can't make it in this country without it. If what he says is true and I agree it is...why would he be so against wanting to make it required? Human nature being what it is you can come to this country and immerse yourself in a community that does not speak much English and NEVER learn the language. He wanted to keep things that way...insuring there are large groups of people here who will "never make it" as he put it...
:o)...Yes but Latin countries in general are not
Name the latest technological advancement that originated in Spain? Medicine? Physics? I dabble in sub-atomic physics theory and don't find major science papers to be written in Spanish or theory advancements coming from Spanish physicists/labs.
“English was not the first language of more than 731,000 children attending Texas public schools last school year. Those children, identified as “limited English proficient” students, spoke more than 100 foreign languages, although the most common by far was Spanish — spoken by 92 percent of the non-English speakers.”
Hmmmm. How many children in Texas schools are children of illegal immigrants?
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