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Side ramble here regarding the debate, but....If you heard a Japanese person or a German person who had become an American citizen, or maybe was third generation or fourth generation American with that ethnicity, using the actual, exact German or Japanese pronunciation of names and places, in a major American public forum, why they would be an idiot.

Everyone knows for example "harakiri" or "kamikaze" are pronounced differently in the mother country with the mother tongue than in the USA; same for German, "Berlin" or "Munich" are pronounced quite differently in Germany as opposed to in discourse on American soil, amongst most Americans. This applies to many different backgrounds and ethnicities.

But in this CNN forum tonight from the floor, you hear the same d*mn thing you hear a lot on CNN, NBC, ABC, NPR, or on US college campuses in the class room etc, when it comes to Spanish names. "PuERRRRrrrrrto RRRRRIkkkoh," "ManuELLL OrrrrrrTEga" in the midst of an otherwise perfect English sentence. What's up with THAT? What makes these people so special that they have to shove their language like that in most peoples faces; I think it is a certain superiority. I think it is divisive and insulting and rather unecessary. Speak in American English in a full sentence, or fine, in Cuban or Mexican Spanish in a full sentence, fine, but do not mix the two! (Pet Peeve)