Another employment field off limits to non-Spanish speakers: Branch Banking (legal, borders)
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Reality..learn Spanish or be left behind. French, German, Italian are all great languages but the US has made Spanish the 2nd defacto language of the US.
As the hispanics rise in numbers non-Spanish speaking people will be left out.
Just reality folks.
USA has turned into a bilingual/multicutural country, it's just reality, whoever wants to get in the program should learn spanish, I learned fluent english in less than a year, really it's no biggie....
It makes a whole lot more sense for Latin America to learn English..............Spanish is not an important language elsewhere in the world------English is.
Reality..learn Spanish or be left behind. French, German, Italian are all great languages but the US has made Spanish the 2nd defacto language of the US.
As the hispanics rise in numbers non-Spanish speaking people will be left out.
Just reality folks.
I doubt that; the pendulum is starting to swing against this bilingualism crap---------especially with large numbers of (mostly Hispanic) illegal aliens starting to leave the USA for a multitude of reasons.
Face it: by and large; those people who come to the USA illegally and speaking Spanish are uneducated peons.
Well, you're definitely not an international businessmen.
This is not a one language world. Despite your apparent dislike of Hispanics as demonstrated on this forum, Spanish is an important language worldwide.
Not important outside of either Spain or Latin America. Spanish is like French or Mandarin Chinese----------all are very provincial tongues.
I just started a new job in the credit union industry after working for a big national bank for over two years. In the last few months at my old job I noticed a few things.
- Over 70-80% of the new branch banking jobs posted in the DC area for my company wanted only applicants who could speak Spanish (dont even call it bi-lingual).
- Most of the new staff (about 85%) that were hired were hispanics. In fact I went to one branch that had an almost an all-hispanic teller line. Made me feel like a complete outsider working on that line.
- Some of the places that were the most strigent in the Spanish-speaking requirement were in areas that you'd figure wouldn't have much of a need for Spanish speakers. For example, I saw bi-lingual openings in the most affluent areas of Northern VA where you'd figure that the population there had so much money they would at least speak English.
- Most of my staff would take almost any form of ID including conseluar IDs (which a person legally in the US has no reason to have), foreign passports with no visible visa stamp, expired drivers licenses from states that stopped giving them to illegals (for example North Carolina), fake immigration documents, etc. Anyway to get credit for opening an account they would do it.
- I was picked on for refusing to learn any Spanish. I'm a FT college student, with family and household responsibilties, a social life, and a job. When do I have time to learn Spanish?
I'm thankful that I now have a job at a financial institution where i'm on an even playing field and have more selected clientele. It is just sad that one field where a non-college bound kid could work their way up is now becoming off-limits in certain areas if you dont speak Spanish or even if you aren't Hispanic.
And what does this have to do with illegal immigration?
BTW, I know many people in California who are not Latino/Hispanic and hold bilingual positions.
Frankly, I think this belongs in Legal Immigration or Politics and Controversies as this is more about Hispanics and Spanish than it is about illegal immigration.
I agree. I'm moving this to politics, maybe this way this topic will get some fresh ideas. Because as it is, it's all been said here before, numerous times.
Yac.
It probably takes a lawsuit by a person who speaks some other language.
At various times over the last few decades the federal government argued the idea of whether notices and correspondence should be in Spanish and English. The argument was that if it was done in Spanish, too, then someone who only spoke Chinese or Russian, for example, could make a fuss and that could get expensive. Plus, if you print Spanish notices/correspondence, you have to have employees that can handle their calls in response to them. Not sure if the federal government is printing letters and notices in Spanish these days but I think for it to end it would require some other group of people to get a lawyer and raise a fuss and say "Why them and not my language, too?" If a judge ruled in their favor then my guess would be it's cheaper not to do it at all.
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