Doesn't ANYBODY Speak English Anymore????
snell/GOD & COUNTRY-zero cliques
2012/05/25 01:59:00
What are your experiences with ppl who refuse to speak English??
Example: In California it is getting harder to find a McDonald's that speaks English!
Example: In California it is getting harder to find a McDonald's that speaks English!
Top Opinion
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Ken 2012/05/25 02:03:01
Denying history doesn't make it go away... it just makes you feel better.
2) Illegal immigrants pay all the taxes that legal residents do. ( http://roygermano.com/2011/02... )
Majority of illegals don't pay any federal income tax, they are illegals with no SS numbers and are paid under the table with cash. Some may use fake ID, but that will only go so far before the feds will be checking into it.
Grow up.
Read the link that I provided.
Do not reference my age. It has nothing to do with English or its use in the U.S.
I read it, not a reliable source. Reality says no, I work and I've seen them being paid.
Many of the problems we have today can be traced directly back to the Kennedy brothers...
What the hell does "white" mean?
The entire concept is so ludicrous it's mind-boggling.
The people from just about every other nation speak more than one language fluently.
Why would you encourage Americans to remain ignorant & illiterate?
But Americans are so adverse to doing anything to improve their place in the world, anything that makes us stronger & more flexible, that it simply isn't worth the energy to try to get the general population to move forward. People resist change naturally. But Americans fight against it as hard as we can. We are the most stubborn, hard-headed people around.
Your scenario of having to learn five languages to live in the US is a bit absurd, wouldn't you say? Did you know that the people of Switzerland speak at minimum two languages, but most speak three before they ever enter primary school? This is true as well of just about any people who live near a border in Europe, not to mention the severe dialects within the languages themselves. Americans love to think of ourselves as being the best & the greatest at everything while rebelling against the very things that could actually make us great. It's simply senseless.
I wish I'd been taught a second or third language as a child when it was easy & quick to learn. But my parents thought like you... America is English only. But now I don't live in America & I do business with people from all over the world. Unfortunately, learning other languages is inc...&
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But Americans are so adverse to doing anything to improve their place in the world, anything that makes us stronger & more flexible, that it simply isn't worth the energy to try to get the general population to move forward. People resist change naturally. But Americans fight against it as hard as we can. We are the most stubborn, hard-headed people around.
Your scenario of having to learn five languages to live in the US is a bit absurd, wouldn't you say? Did you know that the people of Switzerland speak at minimum two languages, but most speak three before they ever enter primary school? This is true as well of just about any people who live near a border in Europe, not to mention the severe dialects within the languages themselves. Americans love to think of ourselves as being the best & the greatest at everything while rebelling against the very things that could actually make us great. It's simply senseless.
I wish I'd been taught a second or third language as a child when it was easy & quick to learn. But my parents thought like you... America is English only. But now I don't live in America & I do business with people from all over the world. Unfortunately, learning other languages is incredibly difficult now that I'm older & have no background in it.
Do your kids a favor: teach them to speak other languages while they're young. It's easy to learn, almost second nature. They love learning other languages. They're little sponges & soak up information quickly & easily. It will only benefit them.
Give our future generations a fighting chance in the global scene... not just the American scene. Don't hold them back. Push them & encourage them. Our children are our future & they need to be able to be a part of the world, not a part from it.
Yes, encouraging people to do positive things is really offensive, isn't it?
While you encouraging people to "stand up & protest" is somehow okay.
I see.
Interesting world you live in.
Pshaw.
I believe 100% in freedom of speech.
I wouldn't dream of forcing my ideals on anyone.
But this is a discussion forum. I come here to discuss & voice my opinion... presumably, so do you.
So why don't you take your hypocritical attitude & go somewhere else.
And they sure as hell don't know how to spell.
PBWY
America's citizens are the only ones who fight so desperately to remain ignorant.
Isn't that bizarre?
"In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919.
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country," he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. "English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools."
“We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”