Posted on 08/30/2007 7:12:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Fascinating.
Make Spanish optional, but require Latin.
Gratissimas tibi ago.:) I teach Latin.
That's the sound, although I think the Anglicised spelling I learned was different. I can say, "Please give me two beers," too, because I helped my father learn this useful sentence in several languages :-)>.
VIVA LA LAZA!!
Spanish is NOT the only language that colleges accept. My daughter was able to squeeze in with two years of Latin.
So does the Black crowd and so does the brown crowd. Have you ever listened to the Lieutenant Governor of California Cruz Bustamante a card carrying member of a Mexican only group known as Mecha. Mr. Bustamante once said that the white race is declining because of old white guys who can’t conceive children (a paraphrase of what he said).
it is more like: White powerless
Not this white guy but I won't hesitate to defend myself for being white and have in the past. The real point here is the onslaught on western civilization both culturally and politically in the world which is perceived as anti-whiteness by folks of color and their guilty white enablers/collaborators.
Odd that you would call folks who defend their whiteness as putting others down when historically whites have been arguably the most magnanimous, self correcting, altruistic race this planet has ever seen. Nearly every redress the world has ever known in the modern era at least begain in the west.
Odd to that those who most often disparage the white race then in their next breath declare that race is a social construct when it suits them.
Lest we (you) forget, I was replying to this post.....Why is it wrong for white kids to stick up for their race?
And I don't think it is wrong for white kids to stick up for their race but that doesn't not mean embracing supremacist or violent oppression of others but for some reason folks think whites being held to higher standards....there goes that darned soft bigotry thing again....that whites simply cannot stand up for their culture....well I sure do unashamedly......and without a robe or torches..lol....sometimes in certain in environments when one is attacked for the crime of being white as I have, you better stand up or get ready to bow.
you know what's really funny, without the transatlantic slave trade, at least for here in America....the self flagellating bash whitey crowd would have nothing....they don't seem to undulate over all the dead Indians as much.
You forgot the original Spanish speaking country, Spain. I think it’s done a few things here and there, like, I dunno... discovering America?
The Spanish speaking kids would have an unfair advantage because Spanish is a Latin language and English is a Germanic language.
Not much, I'm sure.
ping
Sorry,
You can only scream LARAZA!!!
You should know that!!
maybe these leftist turds like the aclu,senate democrats(most),adl,la raza,lulacs,and all the rest of the groups trying to push illegal aliens on us as virtual citizens and calling us racists when we object to having our sovereignty trashed will get a wake up call here-if you pressure people enough,you may get a nasty reaction-i don’t condone the “white power”stuff-it’s associated with skinheads,et al-but when legitimate anti-ILLEGAL alien groups like FAIR,the Minutemen and others are smeared as racist for merely wanting existing federal laws enforced,it creates the situation referred to above-where i live we have a permanent gang of leftist agitators supported by state legislators and some,but not all local media calling anyone standing up to illegal immigration a racist-i take them on publicly because i have no fear of them and their foul communist lies-and if they want to use more than words, they’ll find out about the second amendment,although that is a highly unlikely scenario as most of them are blowhards and trust fund babies-the illegal aliens themselves are less obnoxious than their quisling homegrown subversive supporters-remember-no borders equals one worldism and the end of the United States as a free nation
““Immigration is an explosive topic right now. It seeped into the classroom,” she said.”
Seeped, my backside! She dragged it in by the hair when she asked, “we should we take Spanish?”
She was wrong to do it. It’s outside the context of course study.
I'm confused, wast the one student trying to buy "white powder" or sell "white powder"?
...For ballot measures (not for things such as the presidency, senators, congressmen, etc.) [I] would permit letting naturalized citizens use their native languages to vote; the translations should be very accurate, though, and vetted by both sides.
I disagree.
If one is in America, they should speak the language - English...
And for that matter, those folks in the United Kingdom ought to learn how to speak our language also, if they are going to have the audacity to call it English... but that's another story.
I believe it was Augustine who wrote that its not languages, or culture, or ethnic background, or common history, that binds a nation together -- its their common Creed. What they hold near and dear. Is that nation founded on the Rock of Christ - or does its citizens hold to a hodge-podge of different beliefs? The one built on the Rock will stand. The one built on the rickety structure of competing/conflicting Creeds will implode.
An interesting statement.
And probably also true.
That said, I'd still insist that a Nation's citizens should speak its language. Obviously if it was a trade-off between 'common creed' vs. 'common language' - then sure, no contest - Common Creed wins. But that's not on the table.
I don't agree with those tri-lingual ballots (in the Bay Area alone they have over 20 different languages which the ballots are printed)). Sure, some of those ballot measures are written in a very convoluted manner, but I would not respond by providing a crutch that allows one to get by with a minimal understanding of English...
Besides, there are other 'techniques', other than reading the entire ballot measure, that one can use to help them on their election selections.
E.g., collect all of those pre-election advertisements and use them for 'guidance'. If the San Jose Mercury is for it, then one ought to be against it (although they have tried to trick me a few times). If the Teacher's Union has endorsed it - vote no. Etcetera...
There are many such helpful techniques -- but we do not need multi-lingual ballots.
If one is a citizen of the United States they need to learn English. Its hard, but I'd expect the same of myself if I were a citizen of Mexico (and I'd expect the other citizens of that nation to learn English also...).
I didn't realize Richards was taunted by blacks in the audience. Where has this been reported?
in a perfect world breddah
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