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Hold on a minute, guys. I typed pretty fast and didn't really go into much detail. Let me start by saying I'd appreciate it if you'd give me the benefit of the doubt and know that I don't have some anti-immigrant, "anti-brown" people agenda here. I'm just trying to illustrate that there are some differences between earlier immigration trends and today's hispanic immigration trends.
I agree that it has taken generations to learn the language in the past. The resources available today on so many different mediums has dramatically improved the abilities of those motivated to learn our language. In spite of the slow pace at which previous generations learned, they knew they had to and they WANTED to!
You can't say there isn't a difference between that and today with hispanics creating lobbying blocks to have their language added as an official language.
Come on guys, you know there's a difference.
Dippin, I know why Lowe's did it. There's a large population of hispanics who work in industries which frequent Lowe's. That group of hispanics is also least likely to know English. Hence, they did it as a courtesy to those customers. However, that avoids the underlying challenge: getting that population integrated into society so that those signs don't need to be in Spanish.
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