Posted on 08/30/2007 7:12:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“Why do students HAVE to learn Spanish?”
They don’t have to, but there’s now a financial incentive to learn it. Our wonderful corporate citizens who’ve lured millions of illegals into the US as cheap labor require Spanish language ability for some jobs, in some parts of the US.
They accept that some Americans should learn Spanish since so many illegals can’t or won’t. (They are often dealing with a population with little education in any language). Cut out the illegal immigration, and there’ll be fewer job related reasons for anyone to learn Spanish.
They’ve been revolting since the revolution.
“Spain is why most of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and part of North America use Spanish.”
Sure lots of people live there, but they’re not players on the world stage and never will be.
The entire article and headline is based on one E-mail. That is today’s excuse for investigative journalism.
no, I think that was the Sherman Oaks Galleria.
The Glendale Galleria is usually packed with Armenians.
I heard the same thing from people twenty years ago about the USSR and friends. Everything old is new again. It wasn’t true then and it isn’t true now.
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The Soviets were stuck in the trap of dogmatic Marxism and totalitarianism, without concern for paying for it.
We “won” the cold war by outspending the USSR. Guess what? China is doing to us, exactly what we did to ... the Soviets.
The Chinese have learned they can sell us things. The Soviet Union never, ever did that. They didn’t even try.
Then (the Chinese did not learn this, it has been the plan all along) China invests the 20 BILLION monthly trade deficit we send them (mostly to companies in China, affiliated with or owned by the PLA) to fund nuclear warheads and a blue-water navy, a space program, killer satellites, computer sciences ... by selling us cheap trinkets at Wal*mart.
At the same time, very rapidly de-industrializing their adversary (America) in the process.
AND WE DO IT!! Voluntarily.
(shaking head in disbelief)
You are optimistic. Good for you.
I think we’re sleeping. Or drunk.
Funny ... that's why I was studying Japanese twenty years ago. It was interesting, anyway, and I still remember how to say, "Where is the bathroom?" and, "Shut up and die."
Demography has swallowed Japan, and it will get China, too. Probably quicker than Japan, because China has a deadly residue of Marxism stifling true economic freedom.
Learn a foreign language simply for the pleasure of it, or study it because it's required for college. English is the future that matters, because it's a better language, from a practical standpoint, than the alternatives.
Is that you, Miss Cleo?
There weren’t any clowns chanting “white flour” in the area, were there?
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Perhaps it was simply a misunderstanding over flour, vs corn tortillas.
Raucous round of applause!!! Look at us, acting like nincompoops for the MSM, *again* :-).
This week we've held up a Miss Teen South Carolina and a US Senator for opprobrium. I guess another dumb teen needs to fill the news now.
What countries or groups do you feel pose the biggest threat to the longevity of the United States?
Well, atleast you will actually know what they are saying about you.
Catholic schools were once solid academically and religiously (assuming one was Catholic). Some still are. However, the experience of my friends who send their children to the local Diocesan schools suggests that what advantage still remains is the result of parental involvement with the school and their own children, which you find at school where the parents are writing a check.
As if I cared.
Oh yes, my niece speaks french and is doing really well.
they’re not players on the world stage and never will be
Is that you, Miss Cleo?
It doesn’t take “Miss Cleo” to state that FACT.
GEESH!
Learn the language of folks that are doing
“the jobs Americans won’t do”.
Just don’t plan on a properous future.
And don’t complain about it either.
I’m pleased for her. My mother failed French in high school in the early 50’s. I taught myself to read French so I could read “Cyrano de Bergerac” in the original language, but my pronunciation is ghastly.
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