[.38sw]

Why should this be an issue? Do we see articles about children of immigrants from other countries, say, Russia? "Children of Russian Immigrants no longer speak Russian!" The Hispanic children of these immigrants speak English - as they should. Aren't they Americans?

[Blue Screen of Death]

Spanish might be wonderful and nice to learn, but the board meetings at IBM are held in English. No matter what the multiculturalists say, you are going to get better jobs speaking Calculus than Spanish.

[1stFreedom]

I don't speak spanish either. I'm an American, and I speak the common tounge.

[TexanToTheCore]

This is a predictable and quite normal process for all immigrant families. Why it should garner such tearing of hair and renting of clothes is beyond me.

[jrushing]

"When you have a name like Lucia Margarita Rios, people wonder why you don't speak Spanish," said Rios, who took Spanish classes at Roosevelt.

When I worked in Miami, I had a Cuban-American co-worker who complained about her children having to attend Spanish classes.. I told her that I was born in America & took English for 12 years in school & I still had problems with it! Yes, even Americans have to take English classes.

[ReagansShinyHair]

I don't speak Danish, either. Nobody's crying about that. They don't even offer Danish classes at any schools in my area, either (or probably in most of the country). It's so unfair! My people are being opressed and discriminated against!

Please. It just makes sense to have everyone learn one language. It happens to be English here. Or at least, it did.

[Zeppo]

It could be worse - she could be getting telemarketing calls in Klingon. Uh, wait, that is a different thread, sorry...

[Redcloak]

You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Next class of people to be discriminated against will be those who are bi-lingual. Only because they didn't resist hard enough and assimilated. In the future, translators may be in even bigger demand!

[madfly]

ping

[Dan from Michigan]

I don't speak Gaelic and I have an Irish name.

[wardaddy]

Yo se.

Mis hijas quienes hablaban Espanol y Portugese cuando eran bieb joven, ahora solo hablan Ingles. My ex-esposa fue de Brasil.
Que pena, es mejor cuando possible habla mas que una idioma.

Ainda, yo puedo conversar en Espanol y Portugese pero yo leo Espanol mejor y habla Portugese mejor.

Nossa!

[cowgirlcutie]

It is strange that people think if you have a Hispanic surname or look hispanic, that you should speak spanish. I get stopped ALL the time by non-English speaking Hispanics, who start talking to me in Spanish and all I can say to them is that I don't speak Spanish. My grandparents and my mother spoke it, but never taught me, which was fine with me. Their motto was/is that we are Americans and therefore we speak English and proudly so!