Should Spanish TV be banned from the American market?

Question

It should be banned alltoghether because it is making Hispanics to become a subculture within a culture and not allowing the majority of Hispanics to integrate into American Society. Please heed my cry! Wake up Hispanic community and promote a movement to ban Spanish TV. Until Hispanics become integrated, they will not be discriminated, but the more they isolate themselves the more they will become a marginated minority.

Noone is addressing the issue that Spanish TV is making Hispanics an isolated minority. Get American, please! We all come to this Country to become Americans. Look at other minorities; within 2 generations, they mingle into American Society.

Helmut: please see the point. Hispanics are being marginated because they cannot integrate into American society and the Spanish TV is making them speak only spanish or they don't struggle.

Answer 1

By launching into the diatribe, you make it clear that you are not interested in any opinion other that yours, but I'll answer with as honest an answer as I can muster, anyway.

I LIKE having the opportunity to see if I can understand what is broadcast on the Spanish channel, and there is only one offered by my cable provider. We may have a million or two illegal immigrants who speak this language, but we also have about 10 times that many who came here legally and became citizens. The aged in that population who were not taught English as a 2nd language are not and will never be fluent in English. Who are you to deprive them of news and entertainment in a language with which they are comfortable if it is available and costs you nothing?

In my opinion, rather than banning Spanish TV we should expand the concept to include commercial stations broadcasting in French, German, Russian, Chinese, Swahili, and Arabic.

As far as Spanish TV confining spanish speakers to an isolated minority, that's simply bogus. I have an example to support my conclusion:

My father was fostered out to his maternal grandparents when my paternal grandfather died in the flu. He spoke only German, and was taken only to German-speaking church services until he started school, and only English was permited. My mother went to the same German-speaking church services. Her parents were bilingual, but spoke perfect Midwestern drawl. They simply preferred to hear the church litany and sermon in German, as they had grown up with that. Both my mother and father were not only fluent in English, they had extensive vocabularies. They did revert to thinking in German when under great stress, but even then, they did not revert to German speech. That they did only when they didn't want their children to know what they were talking about. My father became mayor of the small town where I lived as a child, and my mother was many times President of the American Legion Auxiliary. I would hardly describe them as isolated by going to "German Church".

Answer 2

why would you want to ban anything?
you are ignorant, its people like you who make the hispanics or other minorities feel out of place
i live in san antonio, and actually the whites are the minorities at my school, 7 out of 10 students are hispanic
2 white and 1 other

but the fact is that watching a show doesnt make you any less american, it helps keep our culture, remember who we are and keep up with the hispanic society

i dont know full spanish cuz my white dad didnt want my mexican mom to teach me, so im learning on my own in school and by watching tv and that doesnt make me less american or more mexican simply by watching television some of the novelas are interesting, its like desperate housewives, or all my children, its entertainment!

dora the explorer is great for little kids on nickelodeon, a kids channel should you ban that? ban a kid from learning? i would of loved that show when i was little, so i would of learned a second language at a young age, when i start my career, i would like to put down that i am bilingual because people are always looking for bilinguals and they get paid more than a person who knows only one language

Answer 3

I don't know that I agree with your analysis of the situation, but I do think there is way too much access to Hispanic programming in our market.

At the very least, I think that having a Spanish channel available to you should be an extra charge on your cable bill, like ordering HBO.

I don't particularly care for the fact that I am paying for 3 channels that I don't want and don't watch as a normal course of my basic cable.

Answer 4

So...what about the ppl who speak Spanish don't know English yet but are learning English, but want to watch TV in Spanish? Besides, if you're LEARNING Spanish it would be a good tool to expose you to other Spanish words if you can't go out and talk to somebody in Spanish...

How is Spanish TV making Hispanics become a subculture? (I'm not being smart, I'm really curious about that)

Answer 5

Should American TV be banned from just about every other country in the world?...There's people that watch that stuff. Even in Canada we get a Spanish channel on cable TV...

Answer 6

There are a lot of spanish speaking people in America that are citizens and they might want to expose their culture to their children without actually going to their home country. The spanish channels are also good educational tools to students learning spanish in high school so maybe you should reconsider your thoughts

Answer 7

No, it should not be banned. It's guaranteed freedom of speech in the constitution. But a greater problem is that the government wastes all kinds of money translating things into Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog and heaven only knows whatever....including election ballots!!!

Now, I have to wonder, if you can't read English, why the hell are you allowed to vote?

Answer 8

I have traveled many places that are not English and Hey there are English programs there so why is one OK and not the other? Anyways screw that melting pot society you live in Let the Mexicans come further north to the mosaic country...eh!

Answer 9

Would you like to move to another country and watch TV in a foreign language all the time?

Answer 10

Reading the e book instead of observing the movie is the ultimate way to see what the author designed. Reading uses your imagination, hones your reading skills, and can better your vocabulary