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Poverty in the USA means a good easy life of plentiful government handouts.
That's BS and you know it. If life was so great on welfare, you'd be on it too.
I'm not saying you should feel sorry for people on welfare, but when you say there's no motivation to work and people are living the good life on welfare, you're wrong.
Well nothing I can link. Just personal experience.
This year we had a kindergartner that didn't speak any English.
Some of the older teachers taught his mother and they remembered his grandmother didn't speak English.
Small rural town.
It's not common but it's also not impossible either.
I've had some kids tell me they can only speak Spanish at home.
I imagine this is due to multi generations living together and the older ones may not know English.
You have to take their culture into account.
It's quite common to have grandma/grandpa living with mom/dad/kids and aunt/uncle/cousins in a larger home.
Damn you could get in Obama's cabinet if you keep that up. LOL
Many Americans are worried about the increase of Hispanic immigration and Spanish language in the United States...
Guess what! Same thing was happening with the Germans and German language. Americans were in fear over German being an official language or replaces by English but after a generation it died out. Spanish will die out as well. Many Hispanic kids do not speak Spanish fluent, and use English more.
Keep in mind that only 12% of the U.S. population have knowledge of Spanish.
Flawed analogy. Germans HAD to assimilate in those days because government, commerce and social interest groups were not catering to their every whim. Nowadays, the social interest groups TEACH them how to apply for welfare, education, healthcare, housing. The government provides them such assistance. Businesses hawk their products in the respective languages. Happytexan wrote that he's had to write "basura" on the trash so that it can be taken out. Why isn't the illegal "american" able to cipher the word "trash". We've dumbed them down so much to the point that they don't have to learn English. They can live in their balkanized communities without ever having to learn the language. Even illegal maids get spoken to in spanish by their "jefas". god forbid that they learn to converse in english.
Germans were also 100% white and had a much easier time mixing with the english speaking population. In Texas, the germans were every bit as racist (if not more) as the english speaking population towards the mexican american people in the old days. There were german speaking communties, but they were allowed to mix with the dominant culture because they were white and some of them attractive.
Spanish "dying out"? That depends on future immigration. Will most immigrants continue to be Latin Americans, some of them here illegally, or will they come from other parts of the world? Regardless, Spanish is no threat to English, which is the language of our schools and universities. There are no Spanish-language universities in the US -- zero out of 2,752 -- and a handful of two-year "bilingual" community colleges (like Hostas in New York City) help recently arrived Spanish-language students make the transition to English.
Government bilingual services are the work of the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan to allow new immigrants (Spanish-speaking, Korean-speaking and Chinese-speaking for the most part) deal with government agencies in their own language. Both political parties agreed to it because new immigrants include many older parents and grandparents who will never master English. That was the reason for Jordan's legislation, and that's why it passed. Private companies like AT&T and United Air Lines provide Spanish and other foreign-language services, which is a business decision. I have to laugh at people who think that "Press 2 for Spanish" or "Vote Aqui" means that Spanish is taking over. 15% of Americans are Hispanic and 12% of Americans speak Spanish at home, but 95% of these same Spanish speakers speak good or excellent English (near 100% of those under age 40). The rest of us -- 85% -- who are non-Hispanic speak good or excellent English and little or no Spanish. The US is an English-speaking country; you will "need" Spanish in few places in the US: certain neighborhoods in East Los Angeles or in Hialeah, Florida. That's it. Otherwise, English is indispensable.
You don't think a business should have the right to make their signage bilingual? I agree that they should not be forced to, but why is it wrong if a business chooses to do so themselves?
The Reason German died out was because of the World Wars and that German=anti-American, otherwise, America would likely have been a bilingual country.
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