Posted on 03/15/2005 12:32:23 AM PST by JohnHuang2
There is NO "little Cuba" in Miami. There is Little Havana, but it is largely Nicaraguan and Honduran now. The only Cubans there are 65 and older now. EVERY 2nd generation Cuban American I know (and I know many) prefers English except when speaking with their parents.
The whole language issue is a joke.
Uh, there are many neighborhoods in France, Germany, the Netherlands where they speak languages other than the national tongue. Most Euro-peons I know speak at least three languages, as their countries are small enough to begin with.
BTW: Its not that I support government sponsored bilingualism. However, if people want to stick with their own kind in their own linguistic ghetto, that's THEIR problem, not mine.
Under 'English Only', they're more than free to do just that.
But their desire will no longer force everyone else to pay for governmental endorsement of their bad decision to stay out of the American social and economic mainstream.
Congressman King is the best.
I know that, but that's not what I was talking about and is irrelevant to the point I was making.
The move is for English as the OFFICIAL language of the US. Here in California I counted over 5 languages for the ballots...there may have been more.
You can speak how you'd like, but your business in done in English.
There are a number of businesses that offer "working Spanish" type education specifically to teach employers enough Spanish to deal with their work force. In my mind that is bass-ackwards as it is the Spanish speakers who should be learning English.
I have no problem having English as the official language of government, but you have 30 old SCOTUS rulings to overcome.
Thank you for the adamant tone of your reply. It is not on point with my comment about the impracticality of legislating in this area, but nice try.
Excellent proposal.
Keep tht thought and when it's a requirement that you are bilingual for any job talk to me then.....
Besides, all the good jobs will still require English, being the international language of business. I could imagine certain local law enforcement and other government related jobs requiring more than one language, but most white collar professions will continue to be in English, although it helps to know Chinese/Spanish/Japanese etc. to truly negotiate successfully with foreign suppliers/customers.
I really, really hope so.
They must've arrived after WWII, when the country was on one of its super patriotic kicks. The pre-WWII immigrants typically stayed in their ethnic ghettos. My great-grandmother never really learned English as she remained in the same Polish neighborhood from the time she immigrated to the time she died. Her husband had to do business outside the nabe, so he learned the language.
One doesn't have to go that far. Just look north to Canada to see what two official languages has done. The language Nazis in Quebec went so far a few years ago as to require McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts to alter their signs because the apostrophe isn't French.
Good one! But you'll probably get flamed by the pure bloodline crowd......
Good - maybe since you're "brilliant", you'll tell us how to realistically seal 20 thousand miles or so of border and coastline.
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