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I do agree with her being fired because this DID HAPPEN ON THE JOB. If it was off the job then people shouldn't be punished for what they do in their personal life.
Whether a an employer fires someone for what that person does in their personal life is up to the employer. No one has a right to a job. It has nothing to do with punishment.
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Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70
That said, most Hispanic immigrants do refuse to learn English and resist assimilating into our culture but that's part of freedom in America. To them their language is a symbol of their resistance to American culture.
It's not that they actively refuse to learn English; they simply don't need to. There's enough people here who speak Spanish (in fact, it's the second most commonly spoken language, and the second fastest growing in the United States). They assimilate immediately into our hispanic American culture as it exists across southern border counties and even in pockets across the nation. Over time they assimilate into American culture (which, as you can see by the growth of the Spanish language -- is largely Spanish speaking). There's no active resistance.
I have personally witnessed that in Fl - it got hot and in the end the Hispanic man pulled out his Vet card said served 20 yrs was a wounded veteran from Puerto Rico and the constitution gave him the right to speak anything he dam well pleased and to mind his own business as he was not talking to him ! That part I really don’t get. Why are people butting in others conversations???
If they know how to speak English they why aren't they? Are you actually going to claim that the increase in Spanish usage is not connected to the millions of illegal alien Spanish speakers here? Go ahead and stick your head in the sand then. No, the Spanish language is not a part of our identifying culture. It's a minority language spoken here among many others.
In an earlier post, when called out on you equating Spanish speaking people with illegal immigration, you denied it. Now you just affirmed it.
Let me know when you've made up your mind, but in any case, you have pretty much shown your xenophobic and ethnocentric disdain for folks who speak Spanish and we know where you stand.
Again, why on earth is it your business what language other people speak to each other? If they're not addressing you, again, it's none of your concerns. Butt out. Or should I say, no es de tu incumbencia? Or "m guan nay see" in Cantonese?
I do agree with her being fired because this DID HAPPEN ON THE JOB. If it was off the job then people shouldn't be punished for what they do in their personal life.
That said, most Hispanic immigrants do refuse to learn English and resist assimilating into our culture but that's part of freedom in America. To them their language is a symbol of their resistance to American culture.
Assumptions get you in trouble. Unfounded comments. Many have never had the opportunity to learn. If you need to learn a new language - how many man hours do you need ?? Many just working, raising families or never had college or higher learning to learn a language.
That said, most Hispanic immigrants do refuse to learn English and resist assimilating into our culture but that's part of freedom in America. To them their language is a symbol of their resistance to American culture.
That's simply rubbish.
They're like any other immigrant group in America - maybe abuela (like nonna) has more difficulty learning English, but their kids and grandkids will know English well, and often lose their Spanish fluency in the process.
This thread bringing out the liberals from under the rocks. This lady is a crazy old coot and dead wrong..but here comes the angry liberals shouting "racist" from the rooftops. Doing what they do best.
She is in San Jose which also has a large Asian population but I bet she doesn't flip out if they spoke in their native languages. The illegal immigration issue has fueled this hatred toward Spanish speakers in this country which by the way doesn't have a official language.
She demanded that the customer prove that she was born in the USA when the customer told her she was born in the country so yeah if she's not a racist she's pretty close.
I do agree with her being fired because this DID HAPPEN ON THE JOB. If it was off the job then people shouldn't be punished for what they do in their personal life.
That said, most Hispanic immigrants do refuse to learn English and resist assimilating into our culture but that's part of freedom in America. To them their language is a symbol of their resistance to American culture.
Could you tell that to my uncle & cousins who got here in their late 30's learned English and became American citizens?..or perhaps to my nieces & nephews who are hispanic but can barely speak any Spanish (much to my dismay)?
Actually the statistics show they are assimilating as quickly as other demographic groups in the past.
The racists need to go back to their white only trailer park and hit the meth.
Racists tend to be too stupid to adapt to change.
I've noticed that during the Dreamers debate, all the Dreamers they put in front of the news cameras - supposed to represent the best and brightest of them- still speak with pronounced Mexican accents. And they want to convince us that these people are American like us? Most of them seem culturally and linguistically more at home in Mexico or another Latin American country than in America.
Whether a an employer fires someone for what that person does in their personal life is up to the employer. No one has a right to a job. It has nothing to do with punishment.
It's not that they actively refuse to learn English; they simply don't need to. There's enough people here who speak Spanish (in fact, it's the second most commonly spoken language, and the second fastest growing in the United States). They assimilate immediately into our hispanic American culture as it exists across southern border counties and even in pockets across the nation. Over time they assimilate into American culture (which, as you can see by the growth of the Spanish language -- is largely Spanish speaking). There's no active resistance.
"American culture" is not Spanish speaking. Yes there are areas in our country where foreign cultures predominate such as South Florida and South Texas but that is not mainstream American culture though. Assimilating into American culture includes learning to speak English fluently.
I personally am in favor of making English the official language of the US. Every liberal European country also has an official language, including liberal France and liberal Germany.
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