You speak the truth. Some of the TV commercials, even on major networks, are totally in Spanish. Announcements over stores’ PA systems are in Spanish, billboards are in Spanish without even an English translation underneath, I get telemarketing calls in Spanish, I’ve gotten bills in the mail that are in Spanish, etc. If you channel surf, you have to go through dozens of Spanish language TV channels. Where I work, one of the things we do is provide interpreters, and it’s not at all unusual for someone who’s been living in the U.S. for decades to need a Spanish language interpreter. The people who are shamed, inconvenienced, and denied jobs here are the few Angelenos who only speak English. I have people ask me how I’ve lived in LA this long without learning Spanish. But it would be “racist” and “insensitive” to suggest an illegal learn English.
I don’t know if people in other areas have any idea how truly bad it is here, or that it’s coming to them.
“I don’t know if people in other areas have any idea how truly bad it is here, or that it’s coming to them.”
I agree with you on that. As goes California, so goes the nation. Fortunately, I speak Spanish so the language is not an obstacle for me, but it still pisses me off.