Why do Spanish people refuse to speak English?

Question

I'm just wondering as a Greek kid who was born there, came to America at 9. My family learned English right away and I was told to always speak in English because its the language of America. I was taught to not speak in greek unless i was with our family.. I grew up in a heavily hispanic area. All these kids I went to school with spoke English and Spanish fluently.. Yet they chose to speak in Spanish to each other right in front of me, something i would never do to them.
Also alot of people in that neighborhood lived in America for 50+ years but refused to learn or speak English and told me "SPEAK SPANISH"... It amazes, I have traveled to Europe and Asia and even learned French, Italian, Japanese so I would be able to communicate. I would never dream of telling Japanese people "SPEAK ENGLISH", especially if I moved there and lived there from 70 years of my life.
So explain why Spanish people are the only group of people who behave this way?

Answer 1

I'm sorry. I am Spanish and I don't understand why do you think that of the Spaniards. In Spain, like anywhere in the world, there is lazy people and little worker and people hard-worker. Also there is good people and there is bad people, friendly and no friendly.There is people with "nationalistic" feelings and people opened to the world and that speaks 7 languages. I don't understand as people can think something so bad of a country without to have known one by one all her habitants. You have the right to think what do you want, but that offends to me

Answer 2

In my ordinary revel in surrounding this trouble (I have spent a while in groups with giant newly setting up hispanic populations) it's extra of an try to justify racist ideas or behaviors. The humans utilising this argument probably suppose threatened or burdened while faced with the occasional immigrant who speaks little to no english they usually begin to consider poor ideas approximately the immigrant. Then they suppose dangerous for being "racist" and arise with a few kind of justification for it so they do not need to suppose dangerous. You are proper in that this argument is effortlessly NOT actual. There are not any info which turn out that mexicans refuse to gain knowledge of english. It does not even make any logical experience, on account that what rational character could make the alternative to reside in a society and in addition make the alternative NOT TO LEARN the predominate language? The simplest character they could be hurting could be themselves. Unfortunately there also are many immigrants who do decide on to make use of functional or virtually non existent English while handling a few occasions, mainly while they're nonetheless studying the language and this simplest perpetuates this unlucky stereotype, and there additionally many ignorant american citizens who mistakenly interpret this as a loss of wish to gain knowledge of or a refusal to gain knowledge of.

Answer 3

I'm part Spanish and I have aunt's and uncle's who don't want to speak English. I have no idea but they probably just don't want to lose their culture.

Answer 4

Their arrogant and lazy and have no goals, live day to day like cats or dogs.. Not all of them but alot of them are.