Why Hispanics see no need to speak English!

None of this has anything to do with the op. No one is arguing that people so migrate here should never speak there own language. What is being called for is that if they want to be an American they need to assimilate. They need to learn to do business in English not try to force Americans to assimilate to their culture and language.

That's not racist that is common sense. When you have no real argument play the race card.

 

Two of the three articles are opinion pieces.

Only one of them explains why immigrants don't want to learn English.

None of them mention illegals.

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Personal experience. I have met many Koreans who have related that they are American citizens although they may be in their twenties now and haven't been back since their birth.

I have met women who were pregnant yet planned on going to America for the birth of their child. It's a rather wide-spread thing and common knowledge.

 

Hmm, lets see:

OK, I am of Italian-Jewish decent/heritage and grew up in my childhood in the deprived lower class welfare areas of Boston and New Orleans.

A high school dropout who pulled himself out of the slums earning a college degree via the United States Air Force and the GI bill.

But now somehow I am labeled a narrow-minded arrogant, ugly American in a basket of deplorables clinging to my guns and bible.


HankD

 

And if you, as a minister, live in an area where many speak Spanish as a first language, you should learn Spanish so you can witness to them in their language.

 

TCassidy is a liberal?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

Is that all you got?

 

I am an English only speaker. I did take 2 years of high school Spanish, so with a few weeks review and conversation with native Spanish speaking folk I could survive.

Strange thing, my Italian grandmother would speak her regional Italian to my cousin and I we both understood her very well, but I couldn't answer her unless it was a simple 1 or 2 word answer. Si, no, latte, aqua, etc. My cousin knew enough Italian to answer her for me. Never could figure that out. He lived there in the North end. We lived at the other end of the Sumner/Callahan Tunnel in East Boston.

My grandmother did learn enough English to speak with the grandkids, my Italian grandfather learned enough to speak with his clientele - he was a barber - He bought property in the North End of Boston (Hull Street) and a Candy Store. One can look down the street and see the Old North Church - the property is worth millions today, my cousin owns it now. He deserves it. He cared for his mother (my aunt) until she died at 99.
She fell asleep eating dinner and did not wake up.

HankD

 

Good fellow, that was not everyday conversation. Try reading authors of that era and you will become familiar, I hope, on some of the changes that have taken place in our language. Also what region of the US are you speaking about? You know there are regional differences. When I was a kid there were areas of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee where people were speaking pure Elizabethan English.

Some regional American English has undergone "vigorous new sound changes" since the mid-nineteenth century onwards, spawning relatively recent Mid-Atlantic (centered on Philadelphia and Baltimore), Western Pennsylvania(centered on Pittsburgh), Inland Northern (centered on Chicago, Detroit, and the Great Lakes region), Midland(centered on Indianapolis, Columbus, and Kansas City) and Western accents, all of which "are now more different from each other than they were fifty or a hundred years ago." Meanwhile, the unique features of the Eastern New England(centered on Boston) and New York City accents appear to be stable. "On the other hand, dialects of many smaller cities have receded in favor of the new regional patterns";[15] for example, the traditional accents of Charleston and of Cincinnati have given way to the general Midland accent, and of St. Louis now approaches the sounds of an Inland Northern or Midland accent. At the same time, the Southern accent, despite its huge geographic coverage,[13] "is on the whole slowly receding due to cultural stigma: younger speakers everywhere in the South are shifting away from the marked features of Southern speech." Finally, the "Hoi Toider" dialect shows the paradox of receding among younger speakers in North Carolina's Outer Banks islands, yet strengthening in the islands of the Chesapeake Bay.





American English - Wikipedia

 

Amazing coincidence! When my aunt who watched over it died the family closed it.

We had restaurants as well.

The famous Polcari restaurants of Boston are owned by my cousin's maternal side of the family.

In those days there was no DACA (similar laws no doubt) but no one in the several related Italian families on my paternal side came illegally.

My maternal side was Italian and Jewish. Very poor. My maternal grandfather (fair-blue eyed northern Italian) was a dock worker. Lots of LEO's on that side. Everyone legal.

HankD

 

Personally, I do not think that anyone coming to America should speak only English. However, I think if they plan on staying here, they should learn English. On the other side of the coin, if I were to move to another country, I would expect my family to learn how to speak their language. On a side note, if the move was foreseeable, we'd probably begin studying the language before moving, and hopefully be able to converse in the new language by the time we got there.

Now, when I was stationed in Texas, I learned a little bit of Spanish. I had Spanish (not just Mexican, but Cuban and Puerto Rican) soldiers, and while they spoke English, I wanted them to know that I valued them as my soldiers and as people, and a way to do that in my mind was to learn to communicate with them in their native language. Even though my Spanish never got completely to the conversational level, they let me know that they appreciated the effort.

 

Was replying to Saved#, not you. Specifically her saying "or is it just Spanish speakers?"