While it is nice to know more than one language, making it a requirement for employment in the USA is unacceptable. If people want to retain their own language when they immigrate to the USA, that's fine but they must learn English if they plan on staying here.
My wife and her family immigrated to the USA many years ago and she is not only fluent in English, but also Italian and Spanish as well. When people come up to her speaking Spanish, she ignores them and finds that most of them CAN actually speak English when they have to. This just reinforces my theory that these people just want us to convert to their language instead of them learning ours.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you immigrate to another country, you are declaring your desire to become a citizen of that country. As such, it is YOUR responsibility to learn the language of that country and to assimilate to the culture. If you don't feel that you want to, for what ever reason, then you can move right back to wherever you came from and retain your own culture and language. If a person moves to Canada, they are required to learn both English AND French since those are the official languages of Canada. If you want to immigrate to Italy, you learn Italian, France-French, Germany-German, so why has it beco...''
My wife and her family immigrated to the USA many years ago and she is not only fluent in English, but also Italian and Spanish as well. When people come up to her speaking Spanish, she ignores them and finds that most of them CAN actually speak English when they have to. This just reinforces my theory that these people just want us to convert to their language instead of them learning ours.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you immigrate to another country, you are declaring your desire to become a citizen of that country. As such, it is YOUR responsibility to learn the language of that country and to assimilate to the culture. If you don't feel that you want to, for what ever reason, then you can move right back to wherever you came from and retain your own culture and language. If a person moves to Canada, they are required to learn both English AND French since those are the official languages of Canada. If you want to immigrate to Italy, you learn Italian, France-French, Germany-German, so why has it beco...''
While it is nice to know more than one language, making it a requirement for employment in the USA is unacceptable. If people want to retain their own language when they immigrate to the USA, that's fine but they must learn English if they plan on staying here.
My wife and her family immigrated to the USA many years ago and she is not only fluent in English, but also Italian and Spanish as well. When people come up to her speaking Spanish, she ignores them and finds that most of them CAN actually speak English when they have to. This just reinforces my theory that these people just want us to convert to their language instead of them learning ours.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you immigrate to another country, you are declaring your desire to become a citizen of that country. As such, it is YOUR responsibility to learn the language of that country and to assimilate to the culture. If you don't feel that you want to, for what ever reason, then you can move right back to wherever you came from and retain your own culture and language. If a person moves to Canada, they are required to learn both English AND French since those are the official languages of Canada. If you want to immigrate to Italy, you learn Italian, France-French, Germany-German, so why has it become OPTIONAL to learn English when people immigrate, legally or illegally, to The United States of America? It's time we take our country back from the invaders that refuse to respect our culture, diversity and language. We didn't move to their country, they came to ours so, why then must we learn THEIR language to retain employment in OUR country?
(more)My wife and her family immigrated to the USA many years ago and she is not only fluent in English, but also Italian and Spanish as well. When people come up to her speaking Spanish, she ignores them and finds that most of them CAN actually speak English when they have to. This just reinforces my theory that these people just want us to convert to their language instead of them learning ours.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you immigrate to another country, you are declaring your desire to become a citizen of that country. As such, it is YOUR responsibility to learn the language of that country and to assimilate to the culture. If you don't feel that you want to, for what ever reason, then you can move right back to wherever you came from and retain your own culture and language. If a person moves to Canada, they are required to learn both English AND French since those are the official languages of Canada. If you want to immigrate to Italy, you learn Italian, France-French, Germany-German, so why has it become OPTIONAL to learn English when people immigrate, legally or illegally, to The United States of America? It's time we take our country back from the invaders that refuse to respect our culture, diversity and language. We didn't move to their country, they came to ours so, why then must we learn THEIR language to retain employment in OUR country?
But what gets me the most is that I'm a teacher and my own place of employment started to hire bilinguals only and it angered me. Yes angered. I know four languages, including Spanish and I am still baffled that non-English speaking mothers come into my classroom and expect me to speak Spanish to them. I refuse! They are raising children in America, living here, and becoming apart of our society so their WHOLE family needs to learn to speak English. If you want to speak solely Spanish in your home then go for it. But when you co...
But what gets me the most is that I'm a teacher and my own place of employment started to hire bilinguals only and it angered me. Yes angered. I know four languages, including Spanish and I am still baffled that non-English speaking mothers come into my classroom and expect me to speak Spanish to them. I refuse! They are raising children in America, living here, and becoming apart of our society so their WHOLE family needs to learn to speak English. If you want to speak solely Spanish in your home then go for it. But when you come into my classroom you speak to me in English. I teach your child in English or I teach them in AMERICAN sign language. Choose your pick, either way its all American.
Furthermore, how dare America chastise ITS citizens for something many of them could not control. Our country does not have national curriculum nor does it have the same standards or policies in between districts. Within the law, each district is allowed to do as they please. So the little boy who went to P.S. 131 where they opted to offer social justice classes rather than Spanish, now gets punished 5 years down the line because he was lucky enough to be raised in a district that could opt for both social justice and Spanish class. Its a punishment to people who had no control. Yes you can go and learn from later a book later on but how difficult is that as an adult? To learn a new language at 40, without actually living in a new country, is similar to having your brain transported to a new body. Its weird and its going to take years to get use to. When you go to other countries and you butcher their language or try to speak to them solely in English they look at you like an alien. Maybe we should take a lesson.
Not that a lot of even lower wage jobs don't offer their bilingual employees really any extra money for being able to... so don't pretend it's cultural or even unreasonable...
It's all about the dollars and increasing the pool of people to market to.
Don't move to Miami!!! I have worked for the same company for nine years, now that the company has closed and I am looking for a job, all the job offers have the requirement ENGLISH/SPANISH. I am so fed up, I went to school and got certified and now there are no jobs for me because I don't speak Spanish and live in Cuba/America. It will never get better for Americans living in Miami until we move to some other state, our public electives (Congress and Representive) does not care for the American people, they allow this to take place in the state of Florida because these people can vote for them and put them in office, the only thing they care about is their own pocket. Shame on America, the President and all the Public Electives. I am fed up and none of you deserve my VOTE.