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Originally posted by cynicalgrrlll
Also why should other people have to learn to speak English? Maybe we should learn to speak their language instead. just because americans are too lazy and stupid to further educate themselves on other cultutres, doesn't make it a good excuse.
I'm from texas and hear we all speak a little Spanish, mainly out of respect for the fact we have so many hispanics that live here, it's common courtsey to an e xtent.
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It's called immersion it's what generations before have done because they knew it was the way to get better jobs and higher salaries. Otherwise we'd all be speaking Italian, Spanish (Castillian) Gaelic, German, Polish, Hungarian, Russian and English.
Without a common language to conduct business and community places become very divided, example Los Angeles' population with Koreans and Mexicans, where they refuse to assimilate into the melting pot of society.
You say that its out of respect that many of you speak a little spanish, well what about conversely? Shouldn't the same courtesy be extended to those that speak english?
I'm not lazy and I know lots about other cultures and even lived in another for some time. I don't see the same difficulties there than I do here because they have strong cultural identity and refuse to bend to immigrants.
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