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General Rule: If you need a sign to say, "We Don't Suck!", you suck.
Posted on 09/29/2008 6:24:51 PM PDT by Flavius
After decades of immigration from Asia and Latin America, Silicon Valley has hit a linguistic milestone that is rare in America: For the first time, a majority of Santa Clara County residents speak a language other than English at home.
In 2007, Santa Clara was one of just 10 counties in the United States where more than 50 percent of residents speak a foreign language at home, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Monday.
Most of those counties are home to Spanish speakers on the Mexican border or multilingual populations in large cities like New York, Los Angeles and Miami. But Santa Clara County, which is suburban in character, is home to a different kind of phenomenon, with highly educated workers and students drawn to the high-tech job mecca of Silicon Valley as orchards and farm fields gradually gave way to office space and cul-de-sacs.
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General Rule: If you need a sign to say, "We Don't Suck!", you suck.
That would mean it is no longer Mil-p-TAS, right?
Whoa. Scary.
Milpitas, home to the world’s most dangerous parking lot (Ranch 99). I’m not sure how many times I almost got clipped there, and I maybe went there once a month (usually for the Mayflower’s dim sum).
Clearly congress needs to authorize more H1-B’s.
There aren’t enough Americans in Silicon Valley to fill the available jobs at 2/3 of the old wages.
*shrug* You get used to it.
We have great Indian, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Middle-eastern, Ethiopian, and oh yes, even Mexican restaurants...
This is similar to what happened in many towns in Central Jersey (Edison, Iselin, etc.) where highly educated Indian immigrants bought houses and businesses in areas previously dominated by not so educated white “Amurcans.” I prefer the entrepreneurial and productive over the proletarians anyday of the week. Its the uneducated, illegal campesinos from Central America that upset me.
You don't have to tell me; I live in Los Angeles. The other day I needed to go downtown and took the route through "Koreatown." As much as I have seen in this city of foreign signage, seen foreign people and heard their languages, even that shocked me, the extent to which the U.S.A. and our language are COMPLETELY excluded from that area.... whilst they enjoy our superior infrastructure and MANY other benefits, of course. It was very, very weird. We have gone past the point of tolerance.
I lived in Milpitas 10 years ago. It’s not a bad town, mostly Asian at the time. The neighbors kept their houses in great condition and there was little crime, although they kept to themselves and weren’t terribly friendly. I couldn’t buy clothes there, the stores only stock small sizes. There were a lot of cars with body damage driving around.
Do we really get used to it? LOL
I lilke to lean over and whisper to whomever I'm with and stare at the foriegn speakers. They dont like when you 'talk' about them. Good stuff ...
Like the man who was hanged.
He flopped around a bit. Then he got used to it.
I live in Sunnyvale and when I go to Lucky’s on the corner of Maude and Mathilda, I feel like I am in New Dehli.
I avoid the deli section...
It is just crazy. Talk about rudeness, some actually feel that thaey are doing American and Americans a favor by being here.
Let's check their ALT-A mortgage paperwork and find out...oh, wait...never mind.
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