Are We An English-Speaking Country......or Not?

i am 8th generation myself on my father's side. 7th generation on my mother's side. I know a couple of people who are 12th generation and they still speak the language of their forefathers. And there is a huge difference about learning your culture when it is convenient for you and honoring your culture day after day through your actions and deeds to make that culture part of your own family heritage. And that is what is great about Aemrican cultur. It is constantly changing as new cultures merge with other cultures.

That being said, I did not isult you, just pionted out the hpyocrisy of the conservative movement.

 

So you are calling the GOP the socialist party now?

 

they seem to be siding with Putin nowdays

 

No, she didn't.

That section of code doesn't have anything to do with this.

 

Stupid.

 

if Hispanics were all white, speaking Spanish wouldn't be an issue.

 

Gee, in your earlier post (#16) in your stupid joke you say that we only speak one.

 

Indeed, I was pointing to the xenophobic, rather moronic nature of Americans, who seem unwilling to attempt to communicate in any language other than grunting some form of English.

 

America is a melting pot; that's true. And that has always been the case on coming together on certain things......the common language; English being one very important one.

I'm not sure I'm understanding what you are saying you want? Are you wanting certain sections of the nations to speak one language, while another part speaks another language? And do you expect our public school systems to accommodate for all that??

 

Course not!

Let's write ever law, every agreement, every contract in the approximately 6,500 spoken languages in the world today...or we 'offend', 'exclude', 'discriminate' and/or be 'racist'.

 

As you said yourself, you've no idea if we're talking about "in class" or not. There is certainly no reference to any disruption of education.

 

This is kid of ironic given the fact that Texas was Spanish speaking before it was English speaking and that numerous Hispanics fought against the Mexicans for Texas independence and that several cities in Texas are named after those same Tejanos.

 

The big mistake in the US is the lack of legislation of an official language. This is the mistake that by some reason nobody wants to accept it and confront it.

Having an official language in a country brings benefits to its citizens. In this case, a teacher, born in the US, who studied a career, who works, and feeds a family, will lose his job because a student (probably a son of an illegal immigrant) spoke in Spanish and who knows what he was saying, from a joke, probably telling a story, perhaps giving instructions to do something bad, whatever.

The point is that everybody is free in any country to speak the language of his choice, but, when we talk about court cases, schools, application for several things, the language must be an official one where everybody will understand it.

Let's say that here the participants start to write their comments in different languages, instead of discussion this place should be a chaos, where messages will mean nothing to many of the readers. Then, somewhere in the rules, it says that the postings must be written in English, and the comments from anyone violating the rule should be banned. See? Very simple.

If I go to the store and the employees talk to themselves in Korean, I don't mind, but they must talk to me in English so I can do business with them. But this is "private property, private business. In public schools and public business, the students, employees, and everybody must speak to the rest in English. Outside the public -government- institutions, the students and employees can speak in any language of their taste.

Having an official language enforced in the public sector brings order, and secures respect from and for others.

 

Implied. Obviously you are oblivious to it.

 

And.....what's that got to do with anything we're discussing here?

Yes, Mexicans...those who are Texans and those who just live here, even illegally, have worked alongside each other throughout our history. My Dad was a carpenter and worked his entire life alongside Mexicans. He learned some Spanish that way...and he respected their work and and abilities. That's not what this thread was about. It's about whether or not this principal should have lost her job over trying to get them to speak English while at school.

My in-laws, before they passed away, lived alongside a lot of Mexicans....many I'm sure were illegal. Their children attended our public schools and they wanted more than anything for their children to achieve the "AMERICAN" dream......of graduating from a public school, learning to speak English. It's why they came here to start with.....for a better life. They are good, hard-working people. It's unbelievable that it seems liberals are somehow trying to make that all seem like something bad now.

 

You can speak whatever language you want. You don't have to speak at all if you want. Times change, learn to adapt.

 

This board has numerous posters who are not American nationals Who are "We", exactly?

 

White & Christian and old.

 

LOL, your arguments are all over the place. First you ranted about Cubans in Miami and this supposed "spanish only" restaurant, and when a poster mentioned that Cubans tend to vote Republican (that's actually changing), you then went on a rant about Mexicans being deat beats because they vote Democrat, and Cubans being "hard working" because they vote Republican.

 

And the public schools should.........just let all of them speak their own languages all day in class and not English?

 

The Houston newspapers are saying her announcement was about speaking English "in class." It was some of the students who said some teachers said they'd be penalized if they spoke Spanish even outside. I doubt that very seriously.

 

Living in the USA and not learning English limits your ability to be successful.

Liberals prefer it when your ability to be successful is limited.

Liberals push back against English as a primary language.

 

Excuse me, I never ranted about CUBANS in Miami. Miami has a lot of Hispanics from all over the place, NOT just Cubans. It wasn't a Spanish ONLY restaurant, nor Cuban, since I was eating there. I think it was Peruvian Its in a neighborhood that is basically all Spanish. We have a lot of everything down here, but Cubans are the only Hispanics that really embrace this country. And they are the hardest working. Ask anyone. And yeah, immigrants that vote republican are the more successful ones. Wonder why.

 

This is ridiculous. Living in Chicago, I hear lots of different languages every day. No other country in the world is like ours. We should be proud of our welcoming attitude. The USA rocks when it comes to welcoming tourists, travelers and yes, new folks to the USA.

 

This is a bilingual nation, half of the country in a few years will be Hispanic or descend from there.

Spanish should be mandated and funded by taxes in public schools.