Posted on 09/14/2018 1:53:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
My brother is married to a great Filipina lady. Over there, they teach English at the same time as Tagalog (they were occupied by the US for 40 years hence the education) so when you go there, the entire population can speak/read/write English.
She comes here and she keeps asking “why do they keep insisting we speak Spanish?”
Thank you very much. So 92 languages. I was way off and I appreciate your help.
Remember when the 1880s-1920s immigrants struggled through night school after a 10 hour manual labor work day to master English and learn all they could?
Baseball players don’t even bother to learn English beyond some broken phrases for an interviewer, with millions of our dollars and 5 months a year with no work at all to do.
Did the early immigrants get to press 2 or 3 or 4 for their native language on the dial phone and get a special counselor at the DMV ,hospitals,banks and post offices to assist them (or get sued?). No.
When Americans go to China,Iran,Uzbekistan,Bangladesh or Seychelle everyone sets up assistance in English for them and helps them all the time, right? No.
To our honored newcomers the immigrants:
Learn English. Speak English or get out. How’s that for being tolerant?
Fire the idiot.
I am a Gringo that speaks Spanish. When I order a meal I speak English. On rare occasions I will speak Spanish if the the order taker does not speak English fluently.
When I am in Spain I speak Spanish, as it is their nation and their language. I do not go to the tourist areas with the exception of the museums and great cathedrals. I travel where the middle class Spanish go. It is great.
Last time in Spain I did not speak one word of English from the time I left the airport until I returned. The exception was my wonderful Mexican wife. Her English is better than my Spanish so we speak to each other in both languages.
About twenty-five years ago, I was stuck at LAX for about 4 hours in a very early morning layover/screwup. I went into the coffee shop for an early breakfast, and no one spoke English. I eventually got some food, and while eating, I realized that I was the only person in that part of the airport that wasn’t a Spanish speaker.
Another time a few years before then, I was driving through New Mexico and stopped for gas early in the morning. I went to pump the gas, just like I did in Iowa, but the pump wouldn’t start. I went inside to find out what was going on, and the clerk and none of his friends spoke English. An old guy came in, translated for me, and told me I had to pay before pumping gas.
This has been going on for a long, long time.
I said this years ago when I lived in Central Florida.
If you eat out *anywhere* in that area, Hialeah, Miami-Dade et al and you haven’t had a Hep A vaccine, you are an idiot.
I expect the same attitude from foreigners who come to America.
“At Taco Bell, diverticulosis is our strength…”
People think the white / black relationships are bad?
You ain’t seen NOTHING!
Hispanics have utter contempt for blacks, and the feelings are vice versa.
That is all this was.
Some wealthy liberal friends moved back from Florida because they got tired of feeling they were living in a foreign country. South Florida population does not identify as American.
I thought “taco and burrito” was Spanish. No habla - deport.
Try reading the article.
C'mon, man. Commenting with only 1% of the facts is a tradition here.
Taco Bell was voted best Mexican Food in America recently. Don’t remember where I saw it, might have been Drudge.
I wanted a cheap tool so for the first time in my whole life I went to a pawn shop.
This is on the coast of California.
NO clerk of the 3 spoke English.
I was amazed.
I was at a Target last year and asked an employee for help. She didn’t speak English, had to find another employee. I live in the Midwest, so very strange.
This brings to mind an incident that I had in Luxembourg about 10 years ago. I have visited that small country about 6 times, and in the past I had occasionally used my schoolgirl German when ordering food.
Now, Luxembourgers have always been very friendly, and natives speak three languages fluently: Letzebourgesh [a Germanic dialect], French and German. Often they also know English. The last time I was there the workers knew no English, so I tried my German, and was treated very rudely. Somehow I managed to get my food.
Later, I met with a distant cousin in Luxembourg and told him about it. He agreed with me that it was a problem even with native Luxembourgers. Their economy was so strong that the natives did not fill jobs like clerks, waiters, etc. Over the years many Portuguese came to Luxembourg, and eventually they either left or assimilated. In the last years most of the low level jobs have been filled with young people from Alsace-Lorraine, an area of France, just south of Luxembourg. They are rude and refuse to speak anything but French, and not only that, they insult the native Luxembourgers by telling them that their French is not very good. Since French is the official government language of Luxembourg I doubt their French skills are wanting. My relative expressed frustration that he could not go into a shop without being insulted about his language skills - not able to speak Letzebourgesh, French or German adequately for the French youngsters at the counters..
Well, so much for diversity and for importing people from across the border to take low-paying jobs. Doesn’t always work out well.
I installed one of those maximum vehicle height warning signs/poles at a fast food place in Hialeah 30 years ago and the drive thru menu was in Spanish. It was a completely Hispanic area way back then so this is no surprise.
I was a civilian worker at Camp Pendleton when the Vietnamese refugees were being flown in after The Fall. They printed in English, but it gave the keypunch girls fits as it looked like Chinese strokes. Those people were Go-Getters - the running joke then was that they were making egg rolls for their soon-to-be restaurant while still in flight.
I marveled that these people could have come from Mars, they were that alien. Looked different, spoke no English, worshiped a different god, ate different food, etc. Four years later their kids were Valedictorians at high school graduations.
I thought of those people when I read that some here-15-years alien speaks via an interpreter, about how bad things are in the U.S.
[sidebar] Some years ago I had to go to an optometrist. It was run by two young Vietnamese women. Their first names were Tiffany and Stephanie. Then I see what some home-grown blacks call themselves and just shake my head.
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