I'd like to know why an American flag is displayed with "en Espanol" written beside it? We speak English here.

Answer 1

Hi, dont know why you get so worked up, Spanish was spoken in North America more than 100 hundred years before the first group of English set their feet in Jamestown. Since then spanish has been spoken uninterruptedly, in different areas of north america until today.

By early 1500´s the Spaniards had gone as far north as Oregon , passed the Rockies up and explored from Nebraska to the great lakes, settled in California, N. Mexico, Arizona, and Florida. Just get a topographical map of most areas of the USA and you will see how many spanish names denominate mountains, valleys, rivers, coast and plains from east to west, south to north.

You seem brought up on the mithycal tales about discovery, advancement of knowledge, scientific expeditions and freedom spread by Anglo - saxons settlers. Nourished with black legends of Spanish conquistadores killing millions of indians, while god fearing Anglo - settlers never killed a fly... that did not deserve it...Ok they where all brutal and rude, a sign of the times, but just check the number of American Indians alive today, the size of the mixed Indian - American population, which you dont even have a denomination for since the lack of mestizo, criollos, creolle or any type of interbreeding, in USA, only happened in Spanish and French remaining areas. On english settled areas this did not even ocurr. Indians there were only killed, expelled, stripped of their lands or ensalved.

You are as biggot as Archie Bunker, and as ignoramus too. Fake as a false coin. Go and read other things that the usual endoctrinating material you´ve probably read at school and home. Get yourself a culture man, and take some diazepam to control your "rightfull indignation".

Maybe it might help you to read Charles F Lumis´ books, an american chronist and scholar, about the role of the spaniards in the discovery and settlements on North America. Maybe things are not quite as you learned....at least not so hypocritical - "what did you learn in school today dear little boy of mine"....I guess dudes like Woodie Wothrie or Pete Seeger dont ring any bells to you...?

Take of the cultural blindfold and see the world for at least one time, before its too late and you are completelly star spangled blind.
S

Answer 2

Quit with your "only english in america" BS. English will never be the only language spoken in america. An american flag with "en espanol" Written beside it, Maybe because there are a lot of spanish speakers here. There are also French speakers, chinese japanese italian native american and so much more. Spanish is spoken in america SO WHAT??

Answer 3

Surely many Americans write as they speak due to either laziness or lack of education. For columnists however, writing in a casual, laid-back speech like style is a technique used to connect with readers. If you read a hard news story, it is very factual, gets straight to the point and uses techniques such as the inverted pyramid. Feature writers on the other hand want the readers to feel comfortable and want to induce a feeling of camaraderie--which is why they will employ the technique of a conversational writing style.

Answer 4

Not all of us do. There is no official language in the United States. English is the majority language, which is why it is the language in which our government business is conducted. And even if there were an official language, that doesn't mean that everyone who learned English would use it all the time, for everything.

Spanish is the second largest language group in the US.

Answer 5

31% of people in USA speaks Spanish! and you? Don´t forget that Spanish is the most spoken language after Chinees!

Answer 6

I believe that had you taken the time to do some research you would have found that, in American, just about all countries languages are spoken in America. To speak ones mother tongue does not signify disloyalty to America.

Answer 7

I believe lots of people in the US speak Spanish

Answer 8

i agree with you sally, we do speak english hear but soon we will have to be "bye" like the fokes up north.

Answer 9

I think Santiago…could say it louder but not clearer.

Answer 10

That's for users that prefer to answer in spanish, I see nothing wrong with that.