Any analysis of why this hotel failed when neighboring hotels with, presumably, their own Mar-teens didn’t? Whatever else was wrong, maybe this spot, which touts a long standing old fashioned Hispanic charm from yesteryear, wasn’t the best place to try to turn a hotel into a piece of white bread. I hope Whitten figures out how to make lemonade out of this lemon. Maybe bringing in a co-owner who is bilingual to be with him, tell him what is being said, and teach him the language would make sense. Not every single solitary occurrence of Hispanic culture in the US is a pestilence, as long as they are willing to cooperate with English speakers.
If people wish to go to all those other hotels, they still can. If they wish for something a bit different, then they can come to this guy’s hotel.
Isn’t that how the market place works?
“A piece of White Breat...” Good grief fella, are you going to adopt La Raza’s vernacular now?
This is the United States. On our local news, the Hispanics have gone to speaking Hispanic names and phrases in as foreign a sounding way as is humanly possible. They are replacing our culture with their own in the public arena.
It really doesn’t add much to the presentation. It’s more distracting than anything. Like it or not, this is the U.S., and Westernized ways of pronouncing Spanish is not evil. It’s normal.
On Mexican soil, they butcher English words too. They should pronounce those words by their own cultural standards. So should we. Martin is the customary way to pronounce Marteen in an English speaking culture. Our culture here in the U.S. is English driven.