Are illegal immigrants a BIG issue where you live?

[SundownWaterfowl]

 

[warcard]

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The problem is the second generation isn't learning the common language as previous immigrants did. Money is wasted in schools having separate classes for purely Mexican speaking children. Some of these classes aren't even teaching them English, just the material in Mexican. :| Money is wasted making dual signs, forms, etc. Yes it previously was more common for pockets of society to retain a native language within a community, but the communities interacted with the larger US community in English.

edited: spelling

 

[saranbensmom]

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[mom'sfolly]

Regional language groups have been around as long as this country. I have friends who grew up speaking French, Finnish, Russian and other languages, and lived in communites where everyone else did too. The only place they used English was school. Large parts of this country spoke German prior to WWI, when it suddenly became un-American, for rather obvious reasons. In the last 50-60 years many of these regional groups have broken down, largely due to radio and television. But just offhand I can think of two large, long-standing groups within this country that maintain seperate languages...Hasidic Jews and Amish. There are areas of Vermont and New York where French predominates and areas of Alaska and the South West where native languages are the norm. In my community people speak English, Korean, Hindi, Erdu, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, etc.

Just because Latinos don't speak English around you, doesn't mean they don't speak Englisn.

 

[shay20]

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Thank you, im glad to here that, my husband is Purto Rican, and there are a lot of peaple who think he and his famly are illegal, just becouse of his color.

 

[saranbensmom]

Just because Latinos don't speak English around you, doesn't mean they don't speak Englisn

I know some Hispanics - whom I consider friends - who can speak some English, but when at work (especially when they make a mistake or don't want to do an assignment), they act as if they don't understand. Others really don't understand and are trying hard to do so....those few former make it hard on us and the latter of their own countrymen. It's a character issue.

 

[shay20]

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i agree with that,

 

[saranbensmom]

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Thank you, im glad to here that, my husband is Purto Rican, and there are a lot of peaple who think he and his famly are illegal, just becouse of his color.

That stinks! I've had people assume I am prejudice just because I am from MS...they would be nice to me until I spoke and they heard my southern accent - then, boom! turn on ya like a trapped dog!

Not the same thing, I know, but I feel your pain!

 

[geareduplyn]

Just because Latinos don't speak English around you, doesn't mean they don't speak Englisn.

I find this one of the most discourteous things that you could possibly do. I speak very good Spanish, but I would never carry on a conversation with another Spanish speaker when around others who only speak. English.

 

[warcard]

For the record.

I do not think everyone I hear speaking a foreign language is here illegally. I just don't like the fact that the government and businesses have to waste money on people who are here (on a permanent basis, not just on vacation) but refuse to learn the common language, like my ancestors did.

And Shay I am a grab bag of it all, German, Irish, English, Native American - Cherokee, probably more my grandmother didn't have time to dig up before she passed. Husband's grandfather came over on the boat from Poland and worked hard to integrate into the US, he has an even worse time with people who don't put in a little effort to learn the common tongue.

I grew up overseas (Army brat) and was quite fluent in German until I stopped using in daily, I know a smattering of Spanish (just enough to let most women know you don't want to know what the men you just walked by said about you in Mexican).