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Actually Norway and Spain are about 1000 miles(1700km) apart and Louisiana is 650 miles from Minnesota. I used Google maps's distance tool
If you go from the extreme southern border of Minnesota to the extreme northern border of Louisiana, the distance is 882 miles but it is nearly 1300 miles from Minneapolis to New Orleans - the two major cities and cultural centers of each state.
Even in places in the U.S. that are 90-95% Hispanic most public signs like road signs and street signs and such are usually in English only. You might see certain warning signs in English and Spanish here and there but even that's not all of them. Some store signs are in Spanish too but even in majority Hispanic areas a lot of the signs are in English.
Look up the main streets and roads in Laredo, Texas if you don't believe me.
Some Americans often say "all of the signs" are in Spanish in such and such a place but that's never really true of anywhere in the U.S. I guess it's just that they are not used to seeing Spanish signs at all, so when they go to a place where there are some Spanish signs here and there, for some reason they think it's all of them.
Ah okay now it makes sense I really don't care about spanish so it suits me.
I hate that my country is officially bilingual. It costs a huge amount of money
He's not really Canadian, he's a very proud Chinese. Very, very proud.
Anyway one thing that distinguishes Europe and America greatly imo is the capital punishment. Americans can never get enough of it while Europeans usually consider it to be barbaric and totally unnecessary.
Of course there are still Europeans who are in favor of death penalty, even the majority of the population in some countries, but at least nobody's using it.(except for Belarus iirc).
Say what D
You are correct. American "justice" is more conserned in punishing wrongdoers, when the European style is more about preventing crime from happening.
Wow. Not sure where you went in Texas but where I live in northeast Teas, which is only about 14 percent Hispanic, many signs are bilingual. So is much of the information that we get from schools, government agencies, etc.
I don't know where you are getting this misinformation. There is NO WAY that MN is only 650 miles from Louisiana. The very idea is preposterous to anyone familiar with the United States in general and the states in question in particular. If you go from the extreme southern border of Minnesota to the extreme northern border of Louisiana, the distance is 882 miles but it is nearly 1300 miles from Minneapolis to New Orleans - the two major cities and cultural centers of each state.
Wow. Not sure where you went in Texas but where I live in northeast Teas, which is only about 14 percent Hispanic, many signs are bilingual. So is much of the information that we get from schools, government agencies, etc.
Oh, I should have known that a European would mean "street signs" rather than just signs in general.
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