how can we convince latinos the U.S. isn't a spanish-speaking nation?

Question

Mexicans are the Hispanic largest group in the U.S. due to Mexico
proximity with the U.S. and their country's population exceed 100 million people. just Mexico city has more people than the three U.S. largest cities combined (NYC,LA and Chicago) not to mention the whole country of Mexico. it is a vast country and the largest one in population in Latin America.if the American people don't keep pushing Congress to stop illegal aliens mostly from Mexico, America will definitely belong to the mexicans.

Answer 1

that's actually relatively simple.
Stop offering things in spanish. Phone menus, legal documents, advertisements, TV channels, alternate DVD languages...all of these things offer the ability to switch to spanish. If we simply stopped supporting spanish speaking people, they would be foreced to learn english to get along in their every-day life.

It's also a fair bet that people who only speak spanish are here in the country illegally. US citizens are required to learn english in order to get into the country externally, and people who are born here are able to speak it fluently by the time they're in school.

Answer 2

The U.S. has no formal national language although most of our citizens speak English. The U.S. has many languages other than English. Therefore Americans DO NOT speak English only. Since we are in such close proximity to Mexico and have many citizens who speak Spanish, I think that it is inevitable that we will one day have a multilingual society. It would be great if we adopted English and Spanish as our national languages. Did you know that some countries have several national languages. Switzerland has 3 and most people speak all three. I think we Americans need to stop complaining that others learn English, when we should just get off our ignorant butts and learn a second language.

Answer 3

Ever since the acquisition of Lousiana (which had been controlled by Spain for 30 years up until the Napoleonic wars), there have been Spanish speakers here in the United States. The acquisitions of Florida, Texas and the spoils of the Mexican-American war have inexorably assured that this nation has a vast Spanish-speaking heritage. It's never gone away. The number of speakers is rising, sure, but a glance at American history will show that this nation has had Spanish speakers since the early 1800s.

Answer 4

First of all, I don't really see how your question detail flows from your question. Besides, Yahoo! Answers is not about rants and manifestos, it's about questions and answers, and your "question" is not actually a question that you want answered.

And yep, like everyone else is saying, Spanish has been spoken in the territory that is the US just as long as English (possibly longer, I'd need to look up the dates). What exactly defines a "Spanish-speaking nation"? If it's a country in which a good chunk of the population speaks Spanish, then the US definitely qualifies as a Spanish-speaking nation. According to US Census data, as presented by the CIA World Factbook, over 10% of the US population speaks Spanish (source linked below). I think that qualifies.

But...um.......so? Times change, people change, languages change, politics change, territories change.... Just because something isn't the way you remember it being (which isn't necessarily the way it actually ever was), doesn't mean it's bad. Get over it. Besides, before you start talking about who this nation "belongs" to, keep this in mind: this country has only been the US for 230 years. Before then, it belonged to various indigenous peoples, and most of the territory was forcibly taken from them.

It's important to remember, by the way, that the majority of the people that speak Spanish in this country are NOT illegal aliens.

Added later: If you're talking about why there are various services offered in Spanish as well as English, or why some automated phone systems are offered in Spanish as well as in English, then it's not Latinos that you need to convince. You would have to convince business owners that they don't want any money from anyone who speaks Spanish. That's why those things are offered, to widen a business's accessibility to potential customers in order to increase profits. It's good, old-fashioned capitalism, something that the US has always been pretty good at.

The rest of my answer still holds for your question detail/rant, though.

Answer 5

Guess what~too late. Spanish is the second language of the US, officially.
I hate it, I hate it so much that I walk by people and if I hear it on the radio, I flat say it, this is America we speak English get used to it.
Mexico will be ousted into the US as Guatmalans are moving into Mexico and guess what, they are ticked off about it, gee sounds a little like us here....speak english or move out. Yes, I want only 1 on the telephone not all the other junk....
As long as the government tries to be just to the minority, we will be that before long, this is the way it's going to be.

Answer 6

I think all the people throughout the world should make an attempt to learn English. Or atleast send their children to schools that teach English also - if not as a primary language.

English Language is no more a skill to communicate only.
It is a skill for survival in the new age of technology - internet, mobile phone, robots etc., which work better & faster and deliver more content in English than any other language.

It can be compared to learning how to drive.

You may keep your own language for beauty, poetry or family.
But please learn English so that you and your message can travel faster and to far reaching destinations.

Answer 7

And YOU of all people, use a nickname in Spanish? Look...

San Francisco, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, Florida, Texas (former spelling of "Tejas"), Santa Monica,... See a pattern? Yes! Those places have Spanish names, because they used to belong to Mexico!

Anyway, what do you care what language you use? It won't change your nationality to hear some Spanish, you know... Don't panick, you "Americans" still rule the world. BTW, I wrote "Americans" between "", because American is a person from America, i.e.: a person from any place between Canada and Argentina.

Answer 8

This issue is very similar to the gay marriage issue. The issue is about allowing people who are different from the "main stream" to have the same rights as everyone else. I do not understand why it is such a big deal to allow Spanish speaking people to have resources available in Spanish and why it is such a big deal to allow gay couples to marry. Neither one of these options takes away options from anyone else. Even if things were offered in other languages, we would still have things in English. Even if gays could marry, straight people could too. I think these issues are just an excuse to let people to be prejudice.

Answer 9

"how can we convince latinos the U.S. isn't a spanish-speaking nation?"

We can't, because it IS a Spanish speaking country, at least parts of it are, and always have been. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Fe don't have Spanish names for the hell of it, you know. Besides, who cares whether they speak Spanish? If they actually want to succeed here and be a part of the mainstream, they will learn to speak English. Or, they can continue to speak Spanish and live in poverty and obscurity, marginalized. It's really that simple.

Answer 10

No that will never happen..I am an American citizen born and raised and I don't think our govt.is going to let the Mexicans take over...We are a strong country and if the people would just form a united front against this illegal immigration then maybe we wouldn't have so many here...But the politicians who don't have a brain think hey they can vote me into office so they try and make it easy for them..But no it will never happen we will remain strong and United