Posted on 12/08/2006 11:49:23 AM PST by The Lumster
Since elected leaders declared English the city's official language last month, Spanish no longer plays on the wall of televisions overlooking the stationary bikes, treadmills and elliptical trainers at the Farmers Branch Community Recreation Center.
In public works, new trash bags being ordered for residents will have the holiday schedule for trash pickup printed only in English. But instructions on how to load the 50-gallon paper bags will be printed in both English and Spanish, because it's a safety issue.
Some temporary signs in Spanish have been removed at the public library. Fliers for park and recreation activities and library events and other nonessential information will be printed only in English.
These are among the ways that Farmers Branch has put into practice the language policy it adopted Nov. 13. City leaders stress that it applies only to city government, not to schools, churches or other organizations. It does not mean that city employees will not be allowed to speak in languages other than English.
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Think I'll check out employment opportunities in my field.
I know a few of the people in the city government there from many years ago, and I absolutely surprised about the turn of events.
I know a few of the people in the city government there from many years ago, and I absolutely surprised about the turn of events.
Have I founf Utopia ???
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Have I found Utopia ???
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Ridiculous that people should complain. Ten years ago there were more than 60,000 Americans, military, covilians and dependents in the Kaiserslautern kreis in Germany. This in a population of 250,000, many thousands of who worked at the local bases and military posts. English was widee spoken, but no offical documents, and no commercial adverisements in German were in English. Housing contracts were translated. but these were not rpovided by the local German authorities. I say that if Spanish-speakers want help of this sort that they go to the local Mexican consulate.
At the same time Farmers Branch passed the English-only ordinance, they passed one that set standards for property maintainance. They're now being sued by a dude who's claiming the ordinance's prohibition of dirty garage doors and large numbers of empty flower pots on the front stoop discriminates against Hispanics.
I would not mind moving, but we have an elderly relative in this area that we can't leave. When the time comes, we'll move to an area with a less "diversified" population.
It may sound racist, but I'm near enough to the border that I see what illegal immigrants are doing to the USA. I'd just like to shop in a store where the product labels are not in English and Spanish. Around here, I can't escape spanish billboards, spanish music, spanish low riders, spanish language requirements for employment, spanish this, spanish that, I'm sick of spanish.
One language one country. Two languages two countrys. Don't believe it go to Canada.
Born and raised in West Texas you are not alone! Now I have had the opportunity to work in a State Dept and it is even worse that we can imagine! If we as individuals operated our own companies this way we would be out of business before we even opened the doors.
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