I think a lot of folks get romantic when it comes to various cultures and languages. And I will admit to liking to be exposed to those myself. Different foods are great, having been brought here and introduced to U.S. Citizens. This romantic notion is not what we’re addressing here.
In my locality there are many areas where English is not spoken. I’m not talking about a few first generation people. I am talking about people who have been here for twenty years plus.
How do we ever expect to keep our identity as a unified nation, if vast portions of our landscape is inhabited by people from other lands, who don’t care about being part of a unified U.S.
And while some of you will talk about them actually being productive, you don’t have the slightest idea what you are talking about. There are regions in this nation where the inhabitants are mostly takers. They get on government programs. They stay on them.
They live in big homes, drive new cars, wear expensive suits, have gold jewelery dripping off them, have a huge roll of bills in their pocket, and they get food stamps, medicare, medi-cal, supplemental income...
If you ask them for a co-pay, you get the dagger look from their eyes.
Folks, you’re living in a dream world where you think the U.S. is just the same as it ever was, if you’re not grasping what I’m talking about here.
Why is it important that we have a unified language? Take a look at the Balkin states. They fight viciously due to the inability to identify with each other. Is that what we want here? It’s what is being created here. Well scratch that, because in large part it HAS been created here.
Yes, each of us can point to places in the past where foreign language zones existed in localized places. In Southern California today, there are more zones like this, than there are zones where English is spoken on a regular basis. You can’t call literally hundreds of thousands of homes in Southern California and converse with the home owner, or the dweller.
In Los Angeles less than 50% of the adult males can function in remedial English well enough to function in a business setting.
So while some of you come here to defend this, the rest of us find it really strange how little you care to become knowledgeable to have a clue what is going on in your own nation.
The LA Unified School District has to deal with over 160 different languages. When our ballots go out, they are printed in at least five languages where I live.
You tell me, do you think people who can’t understand English have a full grasp of the political issues facing our nation? Do they understand that we are not racists, just because we don’t want to be over-run by tens of millions of foreign national illegals?
Do you find yourself wondering why Hispanics vote for the Democrats in large numbers? Could it be that they are being gamed by La Raza, MALDEF, and the myriad of other illegal alien supporting groups that speak their langage, and are safe in doing so, because these folks can’t hear the truth in English?
Yep, just waltz into these threads and act as if you are not a racist because you can’t grasp the issues surrounding this mess, and pride yourself that you aren’t a racist like everyone else who can. That’s going to strengthen our nation immensely.
You’re right on the money. When an American who speaks only English can’t even be considered for a job because they don’t speak Spanish-and I’m not talking about the UN, or some mom-and-pop store in the barrio, I’m talking about places like Home Depot in certain parts of California or Florida-something is rotten in this country.