Posted on 05/28/2018 12:39:32 PM PDT by MNDude
Is it dangerous to speak Spanish in public in Trump's America? Well, sí! Just this month, we've seen a lawyer threaten to call ICE after he overheard people in a restaurant in Manhattan speak in Spanish, and a Border Patrol agent in Montana detain two Mexican-American women for 40 minutes because he heard the bilingual women chatting en español, because the language “is very unheard of up here,” according to la migra man.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
http://www.nbcuniversal.com/business/telemundo
Quit pumping the Spanish affiliate, NBC. Check out how effective buttkissing outside one’s demographic base has proven for the print journos.
yes and we have ebonics and Spanglish
“Besame culo.”
As written, it appears someone is kissing his own bottom.
“Latinos love la habla not just because it’s part of their culture, but because we know what conservatives refuse to accept: Spanish, not English, is the most all-American language of them all.”
Go F**k yourself Mexican POS.
English is the language of America.
It should be the official language of our government
and schools.
You want to be bi-lingual? Fine, speak English
FIRST.
Is it dangerous to speak Spanish in public in Trump’s America?
Ok, let me ask the question...
Is it dangerous to speak American in public in
other parts of the world?
The answer is hell yes!
Lol Good one
Franky I don’t believe it.
Sorry...The true language of this country is.....ENGLISH. It should be recognized as such BECAUSE you can’t be a citizen unless you know English.
It should be “Besa mi culo”.
I understand what you’re saying.
Sure, but as my old history teacher used to say, time and biology were on the colonists (whether French, Dutch, English or other) side.
In a way the Spanish Empire was a victim of its own success, so far-flung it was impossible to administer and maintain.
Specifically, it is the language of the conquistadores,
Look up "couriers de bois". The French were all over that territory. And by virtue of possession of New Orleans and the Mississippi, they controlled easy access to it as well. The French actually explored far more widely than the Spanish in North America.
Any more than English is because English-speaking Americans conquered native American populations in North America.
There is no difference.
Absolutely, profoundly true.
Mexicans on cows?? (Sorry! ;-)
When traveling abroad years ago, you couldn't count on as much English spoken to accommodate visitors as nowadays… It was also considered good manners on the part of tourists to try to learn the language of the places you were visiting — even if you were bad at it, the natives really appreciated the effort. And as you said, learning other languages was considered a plus in your education, especially in Technical specialties; I learned German in high school & college because of that, almost fluently where I could host German tourists during the summers in my hometown. I recall my grandparents from Eastern Europe were insistent that my folks learn English and invest into the "American dream".
Now it seems like the "guests" want to have their hosts conform to them……
In my opinion, French has to be one of the most inefficient languages ever. It is needlessly complicated when it should be simple, and is simple when it should be complicated. At least Spanish makes sense.
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