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Businesses are mostly catering to Spanish speakers who either don't know English (usually illegals) or Hispanics that just want to feel all warm and fuzzy inside by hearing and reading Spanish. It has nothing to do with tourism. If it did then businesses would be advertising in every language on the face of the earth.
I can just imagine the outrage on here if French, German or Italian restaurants refused service to American tourists who could not speak the local language.
They don't explicitly refuse but they sure implicitly refuse - small restaurants there make no special accommodations. We were in Spain and contrary to the myth, most Europeans are not fluent in English.
I lived in Mexico early in my career and am fairly fluent in Spanish. Even then, the dialects are quite different between Spain and Mexico.
If you can have Spanish only stores with no fuss then why make a fuss when English only stores crop up ?
I've gone into a small retail store only to find out no one there spoke English. No big deal though. I left and went somewhere else. I consider it their loss, not mine as I spent money anyway.
Not long ago my wife wanted to buy something in a Walmart food section and not finding it asked the nearest employee who was stocking the fresh food section. The woman admitted that she knew no English but would find someone who did. She got frantic in searching for that person but finally found one who helped us out with perfect English. He also spoke pretty good Spanish since he talked with the non-English speaker.
This little trick happened at the Dodge City, Ks. Walmart. In case many here don't know, Dodge City was mostly English speaking 10 years ago but cheaper labor was needed at the meat packing plants and people were being recruited from Mexico. Now the schools of Dodge City are about 1/2 Spanish speaking kids. They do have Spanish only places of business in that town of all kinds.
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