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Guess, flyover country with 90% of more speaking English only is at a big disadvantage.
Americans overwhelmingly speak English. If Californians want a large minority of people living in their state who don't speak English, it is OK with me.
Second generation immigrants, as they ALWAYS have, learn English. If they also happen to speak English at home, then who really cares. This has been happening for as long a the US has existed. You're lacking historical perspective, and are blinded by your partisan beliefs.
This has happened with European immigrants, with Asian immigrants, with African immigrants, with Central/South American immigrants...and immigrants from anywhere else in the world. It likely happened with your ancestors, assuming your ancestors came to America from elsewhere.
People need to learn English if they want to live in this country. Period. I would bet my left toe that a good number of the nearly half of people living in California have been here for quite a while; they didn't just jump the border yesterday for the most part. They've had time to learn English and assimilate.
As for my ancestors: they were brought here on slave ships.
Guess, flyover country with 90% of more speaking English only is at a big disadvantage.
Meh, my families second language is math. I also speak basic Spanish and so far math has paid off far better. So um, thanks for that cheap partisan shot of snobbery at those of us that live in fly-over country.
Thank goodness there are hardworking Mexicans speaking Spanish getting the produce ready for the rest of the country. Some individuals fail to understand that 40% of produce is grown in California by these people to feed the rest of us and work at less than the minimum wage.
Yeah, I think it's a true Capitalistic love story that the US corporations have managed to on-shore millions of workers at unfair wage levels which has helped stagnate blue collar wages in the US (along with off-shoring).
It's worked so well that even those that complain about the illegal on-shoring, wage stagnation and corporate greed are promptly labeled racist.
People need to learn English if they want to live in this country. Period. I would bet my left toe that a good number of the nearly half of people living in California have been here for quite a while; they didn't just jump the border yesterday for the most part. They've had time to learn English and assimilate.
As for my ancestors: they were brought here on slave ships.
Yeah, not being able to speak English is going to heavily correlate to low incomes and crappy jobs.
No surprise. Calif. is infested with illegal aliens and other Hispanics who either don't want to learn English or can and won't speak it as their primary language of usage.
infested?? wow that's low even for you
but this thread is about control freaks not honoring the constitution
People need to learn English if they want to live in this country. Period. I would bet my left toe that a good number of the nearly half of people living in California have been here for quite a while; they didn't just jump the border yesterday for the most part. They've had time to learn English and assimilate.
As for my ancestors: they were brought here on slave ships.
im sure your first 2 generations maybe 3 - did not speak english
I'm guessing that won't outrage people as much.
I can also guess why
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