Spanish-speaking people. No one bothers to speak English. They don't have to.?

Lawrence Louis

Its unfortunate that we donâ€™t have enough respect for our own heritage and language as Americans, to insist that those who come here, speak the English language. I have an admiration for people who are bilingual or who can speak more than two languages. I think it is a great asset to have. However, what binds a nation together, and mitigates conflict is that we all share something in common. A common language is something that we all should share.

I feel that what is transpiring in your apartment complex is a microcosm for what is going wrong all across America. For the sake of profit, we appease immigrants who refuse to assimilate the language and culture of the country that so graciously accommodates them, and thus they infect this country with the pollution and lawless that made their country an intolerable place to live.

There are unique characteristics and rules that differentiate us from those countries less fortunate than us. Itâ€™s the preservation of those characteristics that accord us the fortunate place we have in the world. The minute we stop defending those unique features of our culture, including our language, is the time when we regress to the squalor and havoc that infests those countries that people flee from.

With regards to the TV networks running ads in Spanish, there isnâ€™t much as citizens we can do, since they are private businesses who are free to make a profit anyway they please. The only thing we can do is start a grass roots movement stating that we would boycott companies who broadcast in Spanish because they are contributing to the slow erosion of the American way of life

However, were we can have a greater impact on our nation is in the way our government appeases immigrants who cannot speak English. I think it is high time that we start petitioning the government to enforce that all government documents from city, county, state and federal levels to only publish documents in English. I am talking everything â€“ from voter registration, driverâ€™s license information, and housing deeds, to IRS information. We should bar the use of translators in our government offices. Hence, if an immigrant cannot file taxes properly because all the forms are written in English he will be fined or imprisoned. Ignorance of the English language cannot be used as an excuse because it is incumbent of that person to know what he is filling out. If he cannot pass a driverâ€™s test in English he cannot be given a driverâ€™s license. If he signs real estate papers when he tries to procure a house and he doesnâ€™t understand a rule which ends up costing him thousands more, the law must always side with the seller, because again it is up to owner to understand what is being sold to him.

I find many immigrants to be highly intelligent and enormously resourceful people. All of them are capable of learning the English language to such a degree that they can interact competently with the society around them. Just over 70 years ago there was hardly an immigrant, regardless of what country they came from, that did not try to grasp the rudimentary components of our language within a year or two of arriving here. Even those immigrants from Mexico in the 1950â€™s spoke English, if not fluently, with at least a 4th or 5th grade comprehension after a few years here. What has changed?

Put simply societyâ€™s expectations have changed. Politically correct forces find it too offense to tell someone to conform to our way of life, because through some twisted logic, that smacks of bigotry. Yet no one sees that by allowing people to speak whatever language they want, while completely disregarding our own, we are still practicing bigotry just in reverse; against our own people and heritage. The answer to this dilemma is quite simple. In the past, when American society demanded that an immigrant population assimilate into America life, and mandated having a command of English, the immigrants abided by our expectation. Now that those expectations are gone, and dare I say are reviled, immigrants stay cloistered in their ghettos exploiting our public services without truly contributing to them.

As a son of immigrant parents who did take the effort to speak English, I still believe this is a nation that lives by the motto that we will accept â€œâ€¦your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. ... Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.â€ All we require is that those who come to us to escape poverty and to find freedom is to give something back by learning our ways. We expected it before from the huddled masses, and since we expected it, they rose up to the expectation. Let us start expecting it again, and the immigrant population will rise up to that expectation again. Then we can stop associating the word immigrant with pariahs and leeches, and start associating the term with what it used to mean; the backbone and strength of this country.

Wake up and smell the refried beans.
Don't be a victum, elevate yourself.

CuriousCouple

I don't speak Spanish (I'm a American) so i copied some Spanish question off of the Spanish yahoo page and copied it to your question.... HA, HA, HA, HA,!!!!
You gonna report me?

andito
hace 5 minutos

Reportar abusos

porque los noticieros hablan sobre la culpa de Israel sin tener en cuenta la agresiÃ³n asesina de Hezbolla?
las informaciones siempre hablan sobre los ataques de Israel sobre en este caso el Libano, antes contra los palestinos, cuando ellos atacan a Israel los medios nos levantan esa informaciÃ³n, en Buenos Aires hace dias un grupo de piqueteros quisieron atacar la embajada de Israel en Bs. As. y ningun medio lo most`Â´o la policÃa brillÃ³ por su ausencia, en plena capital federal, todos los medios muestran que cuando el ejercito de Israel mata a un lÃder del Hamas o del Hezbolla las noticias reflejan "El ejercito de Israel asesinÃ³a un lider etc..." pero cuando el ataque lo recibe Israel y en ese ataque hay tambien personas asesinadas las noticias de todos los medios dicen "Se inmolÃ³ un palestino o atacan a Israel con cohetes, bombas o misiles, hay tantos muertos" no son tambien personas asesinadas, tambien crean versiones que no saben si son ciertas y aÃºn cuando las saben no se disculpan, gracias.

TOGA TOGA

I would move if I were you... that would piss me off!!

Â¡Hola! Mi nombre es Tamara.

Honey, this is NOT a page to tell us your woes.. Do you have a question somewhere in all that whining and complaining!?

magdalen

Hey Adolf
People can talk what ever they want to talk, whether its chinese, spanish of pig latin. If they aint talking to you its none of your business what they are saying anyway. If it bothers you so much then why dont you get off your lazy buns and learn a foreign language? Or better yet get an education earn a better paying job and then move.

dyboy34

i speak spanish all the time, n i speak english when i have to. a lot of people where i live speak spanish but most of them arent illegal. n im sorry the spanish phonebook pissed u off, i didnt know numbers n names could be in spanish, its not like u could understand them! i feel ya, i feel ya...

n im not sure wat ur trynna say here. r u trynna say all spanish speaking people r dirty or sumthin? we're all illegal???
or r u just trynna say illegals r like that? u gotta be more specific

Zoe

And these are the people that want a better life.

Right Wing Extremist

Yes if you are in America then speak English, All our ancestors had to

bekkiboo31

I know how you feel. I live in Texas also (Southeast) They might learn to speak English if people would just quit catering to them. The whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach.

stranger

So? Rant, rant, rant...

You better learn how to speak Spanish then, huh?

LSD

Get over it. Our country is based on immigrants. They need jobs, they come to the states. Your spanish-speaking neighbors are taking below-minimum wage jobs that someone who speaks Englsih wouldn't be forced to take. If all those people were deported, pour country would grind to a halt. Who would be the maids, the nannies, the busboys? Everybody bemefits.

Alos, your ancestors were immigrants, too. They sure as hell didn't speak a word of English when they arrived.

yes, it's me

WHA, WHA, WHA, AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME!

JuanCarlosNoMore

I am sorry you are experiencing this dismay. What can I say that I haven't been saying already for some time now.
Actually, I think it might be easier for us all to deport our senators and our president and some well heeled industrialists that have sold our country down the pike, for their own benefits.
Then we can focus on relieving ourselves of the masses of Illgegals that infest more and more of out country everyday.
They are of course human beings but they don't know how to behave here and there is no one to teach them (assuming the would cooperate in learning proper behavior). That's what legal immigration is for and what it does. Legal Immigration YES!
Illegal Immigration, NO!

sway_ii

Haha, love it. You are so right, we are accomodating these people who are breaking our laws and refuse to learn English. I dont have those people in my place, my complex is overrun by evacuees, which are just as disrespectful and trashy.

Just a guy

No wonder places around town are starting to smell more like rotting tacos......

einstein

Your an idiot No one told the english explorers they must assimilate or speak indian or mexican the two main languages in the american lands at the time.
so why are you pushing english to feel domant or you ashamed you dont have the brains to learn two languages.
At least they will learn english in time.

Bluealt

Make complaints to your apartment manager. If you get no results make complaints to the cops. A glass beer bottle crashing onto your porch is destruction of property not to mention a dangerous condition. Call the cops & file a report.

angels_among_us

I live in texas also know how you feel. If one of the illegal family moves in then they all come. I have a friend who lived in a apt complex where there wasnt nothing but illegals. She reported them to immigration and she said the day before immagration came they moved by the truck loads. Now its a nice complex. Maybe you should move if you can

1hunglo

the problem is they are to stupid to speak english, even if they could. goes to show the mentality of the whole race.....

Kelly

Texas just stupid red neck like bush , spanish is criminal langguage most whos using is criminal.
next time only goverment hospital in ur town ,the problem they are like cancer and free loader.and ur tax will rising to the moon

u12fme

que pasa ?

Que es tu pregunta?

Whats the question?

There are worse things in the world, then someone speaking Spanish....get a life!

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