why do stores have the mexican language posted in the shopping areas? shouldn't they be in english?

Answer 1

I love the assumption in your question that it is relevant to the many thousands of people who are online that are nowhere near mexico or england or america or .......
isnt xenophobia a wonderful expression of someone's ignorance....

Answer 2

I understand your dilemma. There is such an influx of Hispanics in this country that I think for the retailers it is a targeting method. Many are coming to this country and do not speak English. Therefore, the retailers are making sure no one is left out. I used to think that everything should be in English, but now I am not so sure. I think that a multi-cultural world is what we live in. Would it hurt for us to learn their language too? I am not saying change it over, but the Hispanic population is now the majority. (at least will be soon)
I am trying to learn their language and that way I won't have to be offended.

Answer 3

america as a whole has a national language. if you have ever read the original constitution you would see that it was written in what language? that is right, english. now as far as the mexican/ spanish thing goes it isn't real spanish anyway, it is mostly a hodge podge of spanish, portugeuse and english all rold into one. ask any one what the word for hot dog is in "spanish". you will see. Sometimes it looks bad written every where you go. but, it is a cultural thing and they want to hold on to a bit of back home. but, when no attempt at at becoming a part of society is made it tuns into a racial thing. which is a whole other topic that I care not to get into.

Answer 4

Although the United States currently has no official language, English has long been the de facto national language. English is spoken by about 82% of the population as a native language and nearly everyone in the United States uses it as a daily language. On May 18, 2006 the Senate voted on an amendment to an immigration reform bill that would declare English the national language of the United States.[1] The immigration reform bill itself, S. 2611, was passed in the Senate on May 25, 2006, and now has to go back to the House of Representatives in conference to make sure amendments are agreed upon.

Approximately 337 languages are spoken or signed by the population, of which 176 are indigenous to the area. 52 languages formerly spoken in the country's territory are now extinct (Grimes 2000).

Spanish is taught as a second language to some extent, especially in areas with large Hispanic populations such as the states which border Mexico, as well as Florida, Chicago and New York. Younger generations of non-Hispanics seem to be learning Spanish in larger numbers, thanks to the growing Hispanic population and increasing popularity of Latin American movies and music performed in the Spanish language. Over 30 million Americans, roughly 12% of the population, speak Spanish as a first or second language, making the U.S. the fifth-largest Spanish speaking population in the world, after Mexico, Colombia, Spain, and Argentina. In the Southwestern United States bilingual signs in both English and Spanish are very common. [2]

Chinese, mostly of the Cantonese variety, is the third largest language spoken in the United States, almost completely spoken within Chinese American populations and by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, especially in California. Many young Americans not of Chinese descent have become interested in learning the language, though it is Standard Mandarin, the official spoken language in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, that is mostly taught. Over 2 million Americans speak some variety of Chinese, with the Mandarin variety becoming increasingly more prevalent due to the opening up of the PRC.

French, the fourth largest foreign language, is spoken mainly by the small native French, Haitian or French-Canadian populations. It is widely spoken in Maine and in Louisiana, a former colony of France, where it is still used with English as the state's de facto official language. Germans, if European Americans were to be divided by national origin, would make up the largest single ethnic group in the United States. Italian, Polish, and Greek are still widely spoken among populations descending from immigrants from those countries in the early 20th century, but the use of these languages is dwindling as older generations die out. Starting in the 1970s and continuing until the mid 1990s, many people from the Soviet Union and later its constituent republics such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Uzbekistan have immigrated to the United States, causing Russian to become one of the minority languages in the United States.

Tagalog and Vietnamese have over one million speakers in the United States, almost entirely within recent immigrant populations.

There are also a small population of Native Americans who still speak their native languages, but these populations are dropping and the languages are almost never widely used outside of reservations. Hawaiian, although having few native speakers, is still used at the state level in Hawaii along with English. All other languages besides the English language are usually learned to be spoken through immigrant descendants if not learned through some form of education. English was also introduced in what would become the United States by immigrants from England. It consequently was learned to be spoken by immigrant descendants of those people.

Answer 5

What's the "Mexican language?" I think they do it for the convenience of their Spanish-speaking customers, who could be from Mexico, Peurto Rico, Guatemala, Spain, or wherever, and still learning the English language. It helps their business.

Answer 6

Get a clue- the name of the language is Spanish not Mexican. You are ignorant and arrogant.

Answer 7

I live in Southern California and even see signs only in Spanish sometimes. I want to know what they say too. I think English signs should be the majority.

Answer 8

I don't know about your stores, I don't even know what country you are in...

But the word you were looking for was Spanish.

If you don't even know what language they speak in Mexico then I would suggest reading more about the world before you start complaining about it.

Answer 9

The "Mexican Language". LMAO. What a ****. Go get a refund on your Cracker-Jack box GED.

Answer 10

Of course they should be. Everything in this country should be in english. Then if you can't read it you should learn english go leave. But companies have to put stuff in other languages to protect them selves legally.