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I am not anti-hispanic.
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I'm not anti-Hispanic.
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I have been thinking about learning Spanish for a while but it shouldn't be Expected of me. Florida, Texas, Arizona, California are US States. If people want to come to the USA I expect them to learn English.
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I don't know, maybe some English-language commercials on Spanish-language channels would light a fire under their asses to learn English. If they have adopted the USA as their new home they should work hard to assimilate. I don't mean that they should abandon their culture and memories of their old home at all. But they should learn English.
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I think how you stand on Hispanic people was made perfectly clear here. And it wasn't by Post 1 or 2.
Food for thought: is it possible, in your mind, for someone to understand English but prefer to speak and listen in Spanish?
Food for thought #2: should what you 'expect' of immigrants really matter?
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Last edited by Jinn; 03-09-2010 at 02:13 PM..
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