2007-10-01 06:47:45 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Everyday: Spanish, Hmong, French, Italian, German...
i LOVE it!
2007-10-01 06:51:44 · answer #1 · answered by scoop 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Lately it's been at least once or twice a day. Generally the language is Spanish and often the conversations would get an English-speaking person arrested. When I hear this kind of stuff, I've started video-taping it and sending it off to the D.O.J. Hispanics seem to believe that just because we don't acknowledge their comments in their language that we don't understand what they are saying. It's good to just listen.
In Carpentersville, last week, a baby died because the caretaker didn't speak English and the EMTs didn't speak Spanish. Now the family wants to sue Carpentersville and the EMTs. The baby had been ill and had been taken to the emergency room previously. Apparently the baby's condition worsened and there wasn't an interpreter available to the EMTs. Now, I got mad and suggested that the Village of Carpentersville and the DCFS should file charges against the parent and the caretaker for Child Abuse and Neglect, Manslaughter, maybe even murder, and numerous other charges. Why? Because they knew the child was ill. They knew they were in a predominately English Speaking Community and they needed an interpreter in the emergency room. When the child was ill, the caretakers should have ensured that the child was left in the care of someone who could communicate in case of an emergency. The city should not have to provide interpreters to people who refuse to learn the language and who are illegally in the country. It is the parents' responsibility to ensure that the child is properly cared for and that they do not place that child in harm's way or neglect that child by failing to learn the language. Why should the good citizens and legal immigrants who follow the rules and the laws be required to provide an interpreter while the caretaker is allowed to ignore the law and neglect her child and even endanger the child by not being able to communicate?
I feel sorry for the child but I would like to see the parents either deported, jailed, tried for neglect, manslaughter, murder, etc. If they have any other children, I think DCFS should take those children away from the parents until they learn English and obey the law. That's what DCFS would do to a parent whose baby died of SIDS -- they'd investigate and blame the parents for neglect and then make them take parenting classes and even take away their children. I consider the failure to learn English a premeditated act of neglect and child endangerment and in this case, contributory negligence, premeditated murder and manslaughter and numerous other crimes. No children should be allowed to reside in a home where the parents can't or won't ensure their children's safety and where they can't communicate the danger or the problem to the police or other law-enforcement or medical professionals. What would have happened if it was a U.S. Citizen in Mexico?
2007-10-01 07:30:44 · answer #2 · answered by Mindbender 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I live in Miami when do I not hear a conversation in another language in the public square. After a while it becomes a way of life, it's only when I go to a English speaking city to I realize how nice it is to be not only greeted in English, but not have to struggle to be understood or understand others.
2007-10-01 06:54:17 · answer #3 · answered by jean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every single day in the northeast. I used to not notice it but now it makes me angrier and angrier. One day I went to the grocery store and heard 5 conversations among customers in Spanish and 1 in Russian. I went to a restaurant yesterday and none of the employees could speak English. I had to ask for a manager, who actually stood there and took the time to translate my order back and forth to the waitress, instead of helping me himself. On television you see issues about whites vs. blacks all of the time. When are they all going to realize that we have to join together against immigrants because that is the real problem that will be facing our children and grandchildren.
2007-10-01 08:50:31 · answer #4 · answered by Luv2Answer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fresno, CA here.
I honestly can't avoid going through a single day hearing a conversation in Spanish.
At my college, there seems to be a healthy dose of Russians - I have heard Russian quite a few times while I was there.
I hear a little Hmong, but not as much.
2007-10-01 06:51:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
All the time! These fall into 2 categories. The first kind of pisses me off. The second not so much.
1. Spanish conversations (I'm in south Texas)
2. Fahrsi conversations (my fiance is from Iran and I hear her talking with her family or on the phone in Fahrsi all the time.)
2007-10-01 06:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Michael C 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only on the Phone, Press one for English Press 2 for Spanish (Latino?)
2007-10-01 06:52:48 · answer #7 · answered by pooterilgatto 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Almost never. The only conversations not in english are the ones I have with my children.
2007-10-01 07:51:20 · answer #8 · answered by delina_m 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At least 3 to 4 times per week.
2007-10-01 06:49:57 · answer #9 · answered by Maudie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of the time. Nowadays it's mainly Polish, but the majority of Polish I know are the best people in the world so I guess I feel happy they decided to settle in my country.
2007-10-04 07:45:46 · answer #10 · answered by Jock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my neighbors is Russian and is a US citizen, occasionally at the school bus stop she will speak Russian to her daughter. But apart from that never.
I live in New England, I know however in other local towns this is not the case.
2007-10-01 07:37:06 · answer #11 · answered by Mama~peapod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋