Why are you so upset that we speak SPANISH?

Question

JUST PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH.

AMERICANS ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE. THERE IS A FEW THAT DO TAKE TIME TO LEARN AND GROW.

Answer 1

Hey Dude I speak 5 Languages you don't know what the hell you are talking about!
I thought you were Native American. Are you having an Identity crisis or are you denouncing your Heritage. Do your Elders know you are disgracing them? Bad boy!

Answer 2

There ARE a few reasons that some people get upset. BUT I believe the biggest reason is WE ARE in the USA. The language here is ENGLISH. There are just so many aliens/immigrants that DO NOT speak a word of English but actually live better than a lot of Americans do. THIS alone gets a lot of Americans a little perturbed to say the least. So as soon as they hear someone speaking a forgeign language they get upset. I mean if the people want to come here for a visit fine, but they want to live here and won't learn the language but yet have it better. So people get pis*ed. One more though on this. Go for a job today and if you can speak another language you have a better chance of getting the job over someone who can only speak english. People who are born here, raised here, and educated here and won't get the job because they can not speak spanish, or another language. BUT someone come here from another country and they can speak a little english but are very fluent in like spanish and they get the job. So again people do get upsewt. Enough said.

Answer 3

It isn't the percentage here legally speaking it that is the issue. It is that when you double the legal percentage by adding illegals, it is a problem. Here is an answer I gave a second ago to a similar question:


On the anger part, there are two points, only one of which affects me.

First, people like 'home' to feel homelike. If people here from Mexico went back home to find Mexico full of Russians speaking Russian, and signs in their old neighborhood changed, and a huge part of the population both as workers and the public not speaking Spanish, they wouldn't like it either. It wouldn't feel like 'home'. In fact, Mexico has a law that you can't hold a job there unless you speak fluent Spanish, did you know?

Which brings us to the other point which severely impacts our less educated and those with fewer employment options. They didn't learn Spanish in school, in part because language is one of the programs that have been cut from schools in the heavily illegal immigrant impacted areas, in order to pay for ESL courses. In jobs where there are a lot of low wage illegals, management has started to be required to be bilingual. Guess who that shuts out? The people who belong here, in favor of the people who don't.

We are a melting pot, but that assumes many different cultures becoming American and each adding their bit to the mix. It doesn't assume wholesale importation of a single competing culture and language. While there will always be enclaves, the numbers now are simply too large.

That is aside from ruining our schools and services, but what you asked about was language.

Answer 4

Speak Spanish all you want. Just try not to be too upset when employers (you know, the ones with the power to hire or not hire) want people who can converse in English.

Also.. you are aware, aren't you, that being bilingual doesn't mean "speaks Spanish and English." My niece speaks French and English. The kids I take care of speak Mandarin Chinese and English. My bro-in-law speaks Russian, Chinese, English, Swedish, French, and Spanish.
I'd say that the best second language a person in America should learn is Japanese.

Answer 5

I am not upset by people speaking Spanish although I do not understand a word. I am a sign language interpreter and when I am talking to a Deaf person and a hearing person that does not know sign language I do not want anyone to feel left out or feel like I am talking negatively about them to the other person, so I work hard to keep the lines of communication open. I am only offended when I am with coworkers or friends and the both speak Spanish and English but choose to speak Spanish in front of me, knowing that I do not know what is happening!

Answer 6

I think people fear what they don't understand. I absolutely love to hear Spanish being spoken. I do however feel that everyone that comes to the US should learn English. However, I don't feel anyone should give up their heritage.

I don't really think it's about Spanish but more along the lines of narrow minded people not wanting to hear any other language except English being spoken in public, which is ridiculous. I had to learn German when I was stationed there and I feel everyone should learn the language and the customs of the land they reside. It is very easy to offend someone when you don't know how they think.

Answer 7

i'm not upset that you speak spanish and americans aren't too stupid to learn another language. when you come to another country it just makes sense to use the common language there. for example if i was to move to mexico i would do my best to learn spanish first (which i am actually doing right now, even though i have no intention of moving to mexico). i think everyone should learn at least 2 languages no matter where they live because it makes you smarter and able to communicate with more people.

Answer 8

It's a sign of disrespect. When you even visit another country, it's common courtesy to know a few polite phrases - especially "please," "thank you," "excuse me."

If you LIVE in another country, it is just good manners to speak the language. When you move to a country and refuse to learn the language, you are expressing that you have no desire what-so-ever to communicate with the people of that country. When you expect those in a foreign land to know your language, you're espousing entitlement - another form of bad manners.

But judging from your "additional comments" manners aren't really your strong suit...(oh, btw, most American students DO learn another language or two in school)

I guess my question is, "Why are YOU so offended when WE speak English???"

Answer 9

I am learning another language but it is not Spanish. Supprised ? yes there other languages out there other than Spanish.
By the way Spanish spoken in Mexico is a language of conquest. When the Europeans brought real SPANISH to mexico it was forced upon the people that inhibited Mexico at that time.

Answer 10

Well, as an american having lived abroad in germany, italy and china, i guess i am an anomaly, i read, write and speak all those languages, but in America, i expect you to speak english. I never expected germans, italians and the chinese to know english, i spoke theirs.