“Fucking Capitalists”
What? What would you prefer over capitalism? Seriously.
word.
I don’t understand why people get so heated about it. How is the language SOMEONE ELSE speaks impacting YOUR life.
If someone orders in Spanish, and the shop owner cannot understand, then you don’t get your item. It’s no one’s problem but your own.
If you go to other countries, a LOT of signage is in the native language AND English.
ever been to France newman?
negative,
but i have been to Germany, Japan, and Mexico (ironic?) and there was English signage everywhere.
France has an official language. It’s FRENCH.
You and I don’t speak AMERICAN, we speak English. We have borrowed another country’s language. Other people choose to borrow a different language, it’s their right.
I still find it hard to see why it bothers you what language OTHER people speak.
What about it makes your life that much harder?
Go try living somewhere in the US where the “spanish option” is out of control. A good friend of mine moved his family from Atlanta to Ft. Lauderdale and his wife couldn’t get a job as a nurse because she didn’t speak Spanish. With all the job discrimination things you can sue for in the US being passed over for a job because you don’t speak Spanish should be illegal.
The more you continue to accommodate people not learning English the more jobs require their employees to speak Spanish.
I don’t see a problem with it. It’s a skill required for the job. If i wasn’t able to use CAD, i doubt i would have been hired at my job…
That said, I would love to be bi-lingual. Putting myself in the throes of it, would be a great way to learn.
^ That’s where we differ in opinion then. I will never agree that it’s ok for someone in the US to be told they have to speak a foreign language to get a job in the US. Other than the obvious places where it would be a reasonable requirement like translator, international relations manager etc.
I’d love to see a case make it before this new supreme court where someone sues for discrimination due to not being able to speak Spanish.
English is the standard language for the US. With English being my first language, even though I know some Spanish, I shouln’t have to learn Spanish, French, and Chinese to be able to understand people living in the US.
I see it all day long at UB. Tons of students that don’t understand a lick of English coming into the school. They look at you with total blank stares when you try to talk to them or ask them something. I got to the point where I’ll pass it off to someone else so I don’t get frustrated/annoyed with the situation.
lol i feel the same way at the wegmans by the blvd mall
man, there are some pretty intolerant people in here.
In order to become a US citizen you have to speak at least some English. In order to be successful and communicate properly you need to speak English.
HOWEVER, it’s not mandatory, nor should it be that people NEED to speak English. Guess what? If someone can’t understand you, you’re not going to get what you need. There’s no need for that sign, he simply would not be able to take the orders of those who he could not understand. They wouldn’t get what they want. So if they actually wanted to eat they would speak english.
That sign is nothing but a bigoted statement against people who are not like him.
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
sure why not, they already come here looking to get everything for nothing, why dont we just learn they’re language to make them even happer.
I’m planning a trip to Italy. I’m sure as hell going to learn as much Italian that I could before I go there. They say the people there do speak a decent amountof English, but I don’t want to be ignorant in their country.
In france at least they all understood english. Once you got out to the smaller towns it was a little more difficult to communicate.
It did seem that everyone did like the effort to try to speak their language though. Also… YOU ARE NOT FROM THE US!!
Italy is at least tolerant to non italian speaking folks, but you do want to learn some italian before you go Joe, it will help out alot in the long run when trying to communicate.
Even if you were to learn Italian Joe, when calling an Italian company wouldn’t you be happier if they offered “Press 2 for English”?
stereotype much?
Poor comparision. The majority of the toll free numbers you’re hearing “press 2 for Spanish” are US based, and blocked to international callers.
I’d know, I spent 6 years as an IVR developer.
they aren’t that bad over there. my gf and her mother go there every year, and have no problems.