A few years ago, I was visiting my employer HQ in silicon valley for about a week.
For one reason or another, I had decided to go to a grocery in milpitas to pickup something.
I vividly remember standing in line to checkout, and realizing that there were dozens of conversations going on all around me, and not a single one was in English.
I truly felt like I was in some third world country. I can’t tell you how strange and unnerving it is to feel like a foreigner in my own country.
*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.