Posted on 09/16/2007 10:53:00 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
John Edwards has not taken a definitive position on abortion. Hillary Clinton's position on the issue is that "she will fight for the defense of children." And Barack Obama wants taxes to be "as low as possible."
Each of these statements is misleading, at best. Mr. Edwards and Mrs. Clinton support "a woman's right to choose" and Mr. Obama wants to repeal the Bush tax cuts. But on Univision, a Spanish-language TV network with an average prime-time audience of about 3.5 million viewers, these and other slanted statements about the presidential candidates are commonplace.
These statements appeared on Univision's Web site, but like much of the network's reporting, they were missed by the mainstream media because they appeared only in Spanish. I have taken an extensive look at Univision and found that these are a tiny fraction of the biased views of American politics regularly presented by the network.
This is something all of us need to be concerned about.
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Does Univision promote the taking away of our English speaking society by promoting democrat debates in English and then and translated to Spanish?
It's the end of the world as we know it...
No way -- are you sure?!?
I am not sure that I understand your question. Univision is hoping to host both democrat and republican debates. It is a Spanish channel, so it will be broadcast in Spanish. If a candidate cannot speak Spanish it will be translated from English to Spanish. How does this end the world?
We are an English speaking nation. (so I thought)
True, but there are many who speak Spanish and English and many that speak only Spanish. Not just illegals but legal immigrants and American citizens as well. In fact, Spanish is the official language of Puerto Rico. Spanish has been spoken here for decades, and Univision has been around quite a while too. Not a problem, let alone the end of the world.
If one is here as a citizen legally then why are they here if they don't want to adapt to what the language of our nation is?
It's not rocket science.
LOL!
I am from Puerto Rico. I speak English, but watch Spanish television to keep my Spanish current. When I was ten and learning English, I watched English television to learn pronunciation and vocabulary. It takes a while to become competent in a new language though. It was nice to be able to get the news and other television in Spanish too.
My experience is that it takes a generation for the new language to take hold. My parents never learned to speak English. I worked hard to learn English because I saw the difficulty my parents had. I keep my Spanish current because it is part of my history and my heritage. I taught my kids to speak Spanish and English. They won’t speak in Spanish and only want to speak English.
Like I said before, Puerto Ricans speak Spanish. Most learn English in school, but all business is conducted in Spanish, and most conversation is in Spanish as well. It doesn’t seem to be causing any trouble to the rest of the US.
Sad but true.
Living and breathing.....
Soon we will be living and breathing nothing but gray area.
You my FRiend are competent in English coming from Puerto Rico. Why?
I am competent because I didn’t like sitting in school and not understanding anything anyone said. I didn’t like translating everything for my parents either.
It wasn’t easy. There were no english-spanish classes back then and that would have helped a lot. I mostly learned from watching English cartoons and television. It worked but for at least 4 or 5 years I was made fun of, because a lot of what I said came straight from George Jetson, or underdog.
Trust me, almost all of the spanish speaking immigrants that I know have experienced the same process. After a complete generation here in the US, the children are completely Americanized and speak fluent English, whether the parents want it or not. It is a natural culturization process.
Freedom and personal contentment never does come easy.
It's a hard earned sacrifice that requires devotion and conviction.
My blessed country's conception was based upon this mindset which made us the most sought after country to live in to achieve personal freedom and contentment.
Why mess with it via change from it's original format?
It is, but it is one that every effort is being made to erode. You and your children have moved to the language of the mainstream, because success is impossible without it. But there is an ongoing campaign to reduce or eliminate the need to adapt, yet just enough to "get by".
Personally, I believe that it is ultimately more damaging to facilitate the language ghettos than to put pressure on the early adaption. They become like generational welfare bums: just comfortable in the position to coast and never achieve. It creates an easily manipulatable population for the Galavision crowd to control.
Democrats have often pandered to the immigrant communities in bald-faced ways, lying to them about what the represent and promising the moon. This is not just to hispanics but to other groups.
These lies and idstortions are not even responded to by the Republicans because (a) we often aren’t even monitoring these channels and (b) there is so much other bias to contend with.
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...Univision isn’t alone. Bias is a problem throughout Spanish media. In South Carolina, Rep. Bob Inglis, a Republican and supporter of the failed comprehensive immigration reform bill, was surprised to see a December 2005 headline in El Periodico Latino that, when translated, read: “BAD NEWS FOR IMMIGRANTS: Congressman Inglis will support President Bush’s position on immigration.” Of course, the Bush plan was the most pro-immigration proposal on the table.
Univision is the largest and most important part of the Spanish-language media, yet it features some of the most unbalanced political news coverage on television and it continues its leftward drift. Marcela Salazar, a former staffer for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was hired recently as the producer on Univision’s new political show, “Al Punto,” which is hosted by two left-wing journalists. A Democratic friend of mine, who works as a strategist for a Democratic presidential campaign, told me last week: “She’ll do us a lot of good there.””
Democrats support taxpayer-funded socialized medicine for illegal aliens:
“Not to provide health care for undocumented workers is not only wrong for them. It’s dangerous for the country as well. And so my plans include the undocumented workers as part of health care.” - Chris Dodd
Honestly, the need to adapt isn’t because of wanting to succeed or wanting to be mainstream. Children who are born in the US, just don’t have cultural ties to anywhere else.
When I moved to Georgia, (age 7) I lived in an English speaking area, with little hispanic influence. I learned to speak English because I wanted to, more than that I was forced to. I entered the English speaking school, and wanted to be there. Had I not been able to keep up, my parents were prepared to move me to a Spanish school nearby. I wanted to stay.
My children live in a very hispanic area, where there are plenty of Spanish speaking stores, people and schools. They can attend Spanish Mass. They are all able to speak fluently, but they reject the whole thing. They refuse to speak in Spanish, even when I speak it first. If you asked them why, they would tell you that it sounds “stupid” or something equally as meaningless. What they really mean, is that they want to be different from their parents and grandparents. They are American, and they speak English. They have no cultural ties to Brazil or to Puerto Rico.
It is a natural progression, and has happened to everyone I know in a similar manner. Cultural ties are strong and they take a while to break. The first generation born and raised in the US, is always more American than the generation that immigrated. It is caused by a need for independence more than the necessity of survival. I seriously doubt that the availability of Univision or other Spanish language programs have any effect on whether immigrants learn English or not. If they want to, they will. If not they won’t.
SPANISH-LANGUAGE CABLE NETWORKS: THREAT OR MENACE?
Take a chill pill already. The US has never been without foreign-language media. One of the first papers to publish the Declaration of Independence was a German-language paper in Philadelphia. New York City used to have papers in Italian, German, Chinese, and even had a thriving Yiddish theater scene in the early 20th century. Swedes in the Midwest, Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana, Acadians in Maine, The Pennsylvania Dutch, German settlers in Texas, and so on have all published their own papers throughout the years.
Okay.
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