I tried to learn spanish when i was working at mcdonalds but that never panned out.

i really wish i had taken spanish in high school (french?? what was i thinking) because i'd like to be able to speak with people who don't speak english. There was this pretty hot girl that worked at mcdonalds who had a huge crush on me but i couldnt imagine going out with her when neither of us speak the others' language. i wonder what its like to have sex with someone who doesn't speak your language?

anyways yeah i think most americans look at it backwards. we have no entitlement to this country and if it just so happens that masses of [SOME ][/SOME] move to the US then we should embrace them and attempt to "merge" our cultures or at the very least accept them, rather than try to fight them off as if this is our country and ONLY our country. What's interesting though is that most americans say "if i moved to another country id learn their language" but thats mostly because

a) they will never ever move to another country and they know this their entire lives
b) if you ever did move to another country you would eventually learn the native language (except in cases like ASEs mom where she never leaves the house or whatever) just from being around people that speak it. this is a MUCH slower process than actually studying a language, but I would imagine most americans would do this unless whatever they were doing in said country required them to learn the language faster.

edit : also a large portion of immigrants work where? drug dealers, factories and crap, and construction. all of these will have a bunch of OTHER people of their ethnicity working there so they are never just shit out of luck. Something like ASEs mom which WC seemed to indicate that she worked in a factory or something? but she's polish and there arent exactly an influx of polish immigrants like there are mexicans. I dont think anyone here is talking about those kinds of immigrants, because it'd be pretty ridiculous for the relatively tiny polish, korean, etc groups to demand all our signs and automated telephony systems offer their languages as well. For some reasons americans have this false sense of entitlement, but really the united states' "official" language(s) are "english and spanish" now PERIOD.

edit2: you know the more i think about it if you look on smaller localized regions, you have large concentrations of ethnicities. im probably wrong but it seems like the florida area (florida is a worthless state if you ask me. i have no desire to go there i just imagine it being hot and everyone's wearing tanktops and rollerblades and it smells of wicker, sweat and sunscreen) has lots of cajuns/haitians (french speakers) and maybe the northern area has area of high canadian populations (uh french too i guess but most canadians speak english i bet). because really its not like mexicans are INVADING THE US ARGH they are really only localized the southwestern states anyways. I don't know what to think anymore can someone straighten this out for me?

edit2: you know the more i think about it if you look on smaller localized regions, you have large concentrations of ethnicities. im probably wrong but it seems like the florida area (florida is a worthless state if you ask me. i have no desire to go there i just imagine it being hot and everyone's wearing tanktops and rollerblades and it smells of wicker, sweat and sunscreen) has lots of cajuns/haitians (french speakers) and maybe the northern area has area of high canadian populations (uh french too i guess but most canadians speak english i bet). because really its not like mexicans are INVADING THE US ARGH they are really only localized the southwestern states anyways. I don't know what to think anymore can someone straighten this out for me?

your idea of florida offends me  ​  i've actually been freezing my ass off for the past few weeks.  I never see French people here, and especially don't hear the language spoken. 

Ever since Hurricane Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina, however, our Hispanic population has skyrocketed.  It's definitely not just a southwestern thing.  You'll be hard-pressed to find a construction crew without a Hispanic dude, some crews consisting of nothing but Hispanics.  A lot of them are obviously fresh from beyond the border, as they don't know a word of English.  Some of them have wacky haircuts haha.

are...are you saying because people you associate with agree with you, you can't be a bad person?

christ, inbred hicks only associate with inbred hicks, that doesn't mean they are right!

you can keep saying "I only meant it's their responsibility" and that doesn't mean anything. of course it is. and guess what, they are learning English. that doesn't mean that companies and communication can't embrace bilingualism as well. it's helpful to everyone if they have the option to press 1 for English or 2 for Spanish and unless you're claiming all you wanted to do was state a fact we all knew and you have no opinion at all about people who speak Spanish more and better than English (the examples you've brought up indicate that this is not the case), then I don't quite follow why you have a persecution complex.

Ok, this is EXACTLY what I mean. I said THIS-I have never been accused of even beening a big poo-poo head.

I DID NOT say that they all agreed with me. Some don't/didn't but my point is they don't accuse me of being a horrible person. They might think my opinion is fucked up AT FIRST, because I may not explain it well AT FIRST, but once I clarify what I mean (like I did in my FIRST POST) they at least respect my opinion.

And persecution complex? Dude, EVERY topic I post in that isn't about movies or games someone comes in and attacks me and my opinion. I'm sure YOU are responsible for at least 25% of them too! I mean fuck, someone called me stupid because cell phones cost money and I got the warn for telling them to fuck off!


And how can you say I am BACKPEDALING when I clarifed EXACTLY what I meant in my FIRST post. I provided that ONE example ONLY BECAUSE ASE portrayed all foriegn speaking people as dirt poor workers. I was saying "No, I have witnessed wealthy foriegn speaking people this is what I saw".

also you won't really find that idea outside the US.

And that is just incorrect. I know people who are mexican but because they were born in America were treated like shit when they went to visit their grandparents in Mexico.

Right so this is just basically you guys calling me a liar. Well whatever. I'm not lying.

It's all about being articulate and being clear on what you mean. Chicks dig articulate guys 8)