America the land of the free and immigrants is changing fast. So do u feel like u should learn Spanish?
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I think learning a different language is always a good thing! It opens your mind and you can communicate with a lot more people....
But I refuse to learn another language because I am forced because others immigrate here illegally and will not learn English! If they don't respect the fact that Americans speak English and don't bother to learn English, then why should I adjust?
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Yes, pretty soon there won't be many European-Americans left--in comparison with all the other cultures and races that have settled here more recently. Not that we don't deserve it--we stole this land from the Native Americans.
No, we shouldn't have to learn their language. They are comming to our country so they should have to speak our language. Wait, nobody is doing anything about the illegal immigrants, that's not right. For example Did you know that illegals kill way more people a year then then us citizens do and they just let them stay. What is up with that?
Let's reverse this situation for a moment, shall we?
If Americans were to mass immigrate to Mexico, would the Mexican people change their whole culture and begin speaking English? I doubt that seriously. I'm sure there would be Mexican people who would attempt to know both languages so they could communicate with those coming into their country, but I don't see that on any mass scale.
The same with America. Americans are not going to change their culture because we have Latin immigrants coming here. It is up to them to adapt to OUR culture if they choose to live here. Of course we will be respectful of their culture, we're not asking them to toss it all out the window just because they choose to immigrate to the United States.
If I recall, Americans descend from many cultures. That's what makes us so unique.
no I don't think I should have to learn Spanish, because I was here first. But not don't mean that I wouldn't I can be flexible.
think about this
if we teach children both spanish and english it would be a BIG waste of time teach both spanish just stick with english
Hell no!
we stole the land from the Indians and they had to learn English so i guess we have to learn Spanish cause they r stealing it from us. but if there wasn't racist then maybe we could just all get along on one land. i heard by like 2015 whites will be minority. but what is white. in a sense who r we so maybe it would be good to know a lot of Spanish.
I think it's important for everyone to learn to speak a second language, but it certainly doesn't have to be Spanish. While I believe we are indeed a melting pot, I doubt English will ever not be the primary language in this country.
America is a land of the free and a country build on immigrants and immigration but I do not feel that I nor anyone else should HAVE to learn Spanish. I can understand people immigrating to the United States for better opportunities or whatever, but that dosen't mean that they shouldn't learn the lanuage of that country that they move into. Also if we change that we have to learn Spanish that's just telling immigrants more that they don't have to learn English, which they should, I think if you are going to move or immigrate to a country you should learn that language. I mean think about it if you or I were to move to Japan is Japan going to change it language to English? Or if a large group of Koreans move to Germany is Germany going to change it's language to Korean? No. Besides this it becomes an issue of favoritism due to the amount of immigrants onto that certain group of immigrants. By making people have to learn Spanish because of the large amounts of immigrants in the country, is being biased to other immigrants, there are Korean, Vietnamese, German, Russian, African, etc immigrants in this country as well. It's not fair to other immigrants that the country would change to have it's people learn to speak the language of one immigrant and not the other. So, I think rather then having the country change to fit the immigrant, quite simply the immigrant should change to fit the country. Again, as I stated before, most people with common sence would think that if they were to move into another country, reguardless if there is a large population or not in that country, that they should, or put good effort into learning the language of the country they are immigrating to and not assume the country would change for them. Immigration is a good thing and gives people opportunities but that dosent mean they shouldn't try to adapt to where they moved to.
AMERICA is named after an Italian map maker
No not unless you want to it's the USA and should be our choice if we are born here.
Should Mexico learn English? No. And we shouldn't learn Spanish. It isn't a national language and therefore is pointless to learn. Hispanics need to learn English. Afterall, they're entering into a English-speaking country. Why should we have to learn a new language when they're the ones coming here? It makes no sense to me.
Hell no, in this country you speak English.
There IS such a thing as "American" culture. Of course you probably don't think that way because you see yourself as a Mexican-American, or a Spanish-American, etc., etc. Then pardon me for pointing out that I was born and raised in the U.S., so I guess that makes me an American-American .. and yes, I have my OWN culture. If you can't assimilate into MY culture, please do an about face and go back from whence you came.. Understand?
I can tell your a very young person and really have not studied your American history closely .
To be an American , is not a culture . We have brought through the history of this Great Nation the things that make us the people we are today .
True most of our ancestors were from other countries . but they were coming here because of an idea and to assimilate into this country and to become an American .
They were proud to speak English , to learn Americans History , to live by the Constitution , to fight for their new country and to have the freedom of ideas. There are traditions in this country that hold us together as a people , among them are our belief in the Constitution , our Flag , The Declaration of Independence ,The Bill of Rights.
If you had bothered to read the American's Creed .
http://www.ushistory.org/documents/creed...
We are held together as a Nation by a Creed and our Ideas of what this country meant to our forefathers and why they died for it , and us .
There is no , American Culture that holds this Nation together .
America is a Creed Society .
Promoting/aiding/abetting illegal immigration is worth billions to the country of Mexico, and their supporters, legal or otherwise, in America. Billions. Tens of billions, maybe more than that, suffice it to say it's very lucrative. Decades of systematic corruption and promotion of very liberal and tolerant attitudes have built the foundation upon which this entire farcical circumstance resides,
suffice it to say that cross-border problems related to money have caused no end of grief between the United States and Mexico, and peoples' patience as well as the rhetoric to which we're repeatedly exposed on this issue are wearing paper-thin.
Mexico needs to stand up and declare its' independence, once again, but this time from the North American Union supporters as well as the business types that have no qualms about wrecking either mexican or american society. More mexican citizens need to do things that'll amend the situation, as do american citizens, by refusing to conduct unlawful commerce, stopping the drug trade, and laying the facts on the table as regards the entire issue. Mexico could have been a prosperous, independent, fully functional country years and years ago, but only now are they starting to realize it, and seek better answers to chronic problems like crime.
English has become the international language of business. But, in the new global job market, one must know two or three languages to maintain white collar standards of living. This is going to hurt Americans who aren't really ready for the 20th century, better yet the 21st. As for the racist nonsense about English belongs on this side of the border and Spanish belongs on that side of the border, all is moot because the borders are going away. Here's the overview. The big picture starts with N.A.F.T.A., which is good and bad, but has some serious problems, specifically the sudden and unexpected concentration of wealth, especially in Mexico and the U.S. The middle class and their communities in all three nations, but especially in Mexico and then the U.S. are suffering from some of the economic problems caused by N.A.F.T.A.. There are concerted efforts to correct the problems associated with N.A.F.T.A.. But, Republican / Conservatives, specifically following Bush, are deliberately reducing the middle class in all three nations in order to have cheaper labor. The unemployment rate in Mexico has already risen over 20%. And, our U.S. communities have been deliberately weakened by Republican / Conservatives through the reduction of our school systems and social services in order to have a "needy" middle class and compliant workers willing to work for nothing. The social collapse in many communities that is secondary to state and federal Republican / Conservative tolerance, related to allowing U.S. business owners to criminally invite and hire undocumented workers in order to avoid paying U.S. workers a legal and decent wage, is coming home to roost. As unemployment rises in Mexico secondary to N.A.F.T.A., crime also is rising. And, by denying educations and equal access to social services to help the assimilation into our society of the Mexican families illegally hired and needed here, poverty and ignorance are weakening the fabric of many communities. As racists bickered about the burden of having to educate little children whose parents were illegally hired to work in this nation, and as they complained about having to hear Spanish and about bilingualism, and as they allowed their communities to decline into social instability and increasingly poorly educated, impoverished populations due to gross and inhumane mismanagement by Republican / Conservatives, the new Superstate between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada was officially signed by President Bush. Borders are going away. We are now one Superstate. N.A.F.T.A., as you know, is an economic alliance between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Without Congressional over-site, Bush this winter signed into law a political extension of that agreement in which the three nations are now the new North American "Superstate" called SPP. All borders are to be "streamlined" and eventually eliminated, major new toll highways are already planned to connect all three nations (including the big one eight football fields wide right up through the center of the new Superstate that the King of Spain will hold the lease and profits from), a common currency (eventually, not at first) and common citizenship. Mexico gets a big chunk of Kansas to use as a staging area for its highway construction and maintenence contracts. This is all fact. The realities of globalization will not go away. The forces behind this new Superstate and the contracts already in effect will not allow any interference. Way too much money is already in play here. Any moronic racist trying to start war on American soil will be crushed. Any state that attempts to interfere with the "streamlining" of borders and trade between the three nations will become economic wastelands patrolled by U.S. Army tanks. The U.S. middle class must stop listening to their local mealy-mouthed Republican / Conservatives who promote racism, violence, hate, intolerance and backward isolationistic notions. Or, their communities will fail. It takes wiser problem-solving to deal with these enormous changes in our social system and to realistically address our problems than hauling people out into the desert and murdering them. Those states and communities who cling to racism and Conservative feeble-minded backward notions will collapse. They ARE collapsing, and not due to Mexicans. The problems are due to Republican / Conservative plunder of the middle class everywhere and their paradigm that a community belongs only to them and that they can do what they want with people, including sabatoging community planning that could have saved many communities from collapse. That's plain wicked and stupid. Here is the new government's official website:
http://spp.gov/
http://www.freedom.org/naugreen2/player....
No.
More than 200 dialects and languages are spoken daily in the US. That is why we have a single unifying language, English.
Beyond that, language is a preference, and I chose German and French.
My sons may choose Chinese.
Come on people wake up. Do you know why Gunter is encouraging spanish.She is one of those rich white Mexicans that lives in Mexico. Her and her cohorts are the ones that are sending their poor over into the USA.She is one of the reasons we have all the illegal Mexicans in our country. These people are refusing to take care of their own poor. Now she is pretending like she is a friend. Sure she is. She is very happy the USA is footing the bill to take care of their poor.
Im from Spain, and my native language is Spanish! The most beautiful language in the world. Then comes portuguese and italian. English is the most horrible, so I would never go to USA.
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