ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE?

It could happen but then again it may not, depends on which side of the fence you are on. My oldest brother told me once I should learn Spanish since that is going to be the language of our future but I am not budging, I am too old fashion for that. Will it hurt me in the long run? I don’t think so because I have faith that America is not going to let that happen. Today we see more and more how mostly the language of Spanish is taking over our culture, everywhere you turn there is a sign, product, or job classified that has something in regards to Spanish. Now being that we are a country for the most part is English speaking why are we more and more catering to the Spanish language? Is it because it is the most politically correct thing to do, to help people that come into our country that can’t speak English? My belief is that as a culture we have become lazy and accommodating to the point that anyone that comes into our country that speaks Spanish we are going to bend over backwards to make them feel welcome thus enabling them not to assimilate to learn English.

Face it, today you can go to any grocery store and on every isle and on most products you will see Spanish written on the labels. Years ago that wasn’t the case but today when going to the grocery store you may wonder if you are in the United States or not. Even in the stores or even if you are out and about you will see signs in Spanish to help our Spanish speaking friends through the maze that is America. Why is it we as a culture have allowed and endure this for so long? Most countries you go to will have the main language they speak on products and signs, they don’t cater or enable anyone coming to their country by speaking our language. They for the most part take pride in their culture and their language and expect people that come to their country to assimilate not the other way around but in America today that is not the case.

You can go into any government building in the United States and see signs in English and Spanish, now this coming from a government that has stated English is the main language but not the official language. Okay, so it is not the official language but it is the main language and it should be made the official language. Some states have made it the official language of the state such as Virginia but that doesn’t stop the signs being in English and Spanish. There should be only one language if it is the official language. The government can’t have it both ways but one knows they will not change because the government doesn’t want to alienate people that speak Spanish because they will loss votes and have groups such as La Raza and the ACLU all over them claiming discrimination. This I find humorous with La Raza and ACLU claiming discrimination based off of what our culture has been, English and when did speaking English become discrimination?

Spanish has also cause many Americans to lose out on job opportunities because in a lot of job ads companies want people that can speak Spanish as well as English. Companies in themselves as well as the government has turn our nation into an enabler nation by not making Spanish people that come to our country learn English. When you call a business today and get the standard recorded greeting you have the opportunity to press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish, what will scare me is when English becomes 2. The general consensuses today with people in America is they can’t stand the fact that they have to press a button on their phone to hear English but yet companies are and will not conform to what the general consensuses wants because that means losing money and lord knows they can’t have that.

Why as a nation have we let the liberal think tank takeover the use of our language? Why have we let them make us bend over backwards to cater and enable people that speak Spanish? If I was from another country that didn’t speak Spanish and came here to live I would find it insulting how no one catered to me, after all America is a melting pot of many languages therefore shouldn’t we cater to all of the languages and not just one? English should be the official language here in the United States since we are a melting pot of many cultures, it would be easier for all to have just one language. Becoming a bilingual nation cannot and will not work because of the diversity we have here. I am sure I have insulted those that speak Spanish but you need to stop and think how you insult us every time you speak Spanish in front us because in a nation that is mostly English it is insulting to us. I have even been yelled at by a few Spanish speaking people at a former job because they came into my office not be able to speak English and cursed at me for not knowing their language, how absurd is that!

My message to Spanish speaking people is learn to assimilate and learn English because this American will not cater to you and learn your language. It was you that came here to live not the other way around so threatening people that speak English to learn your language because your people are taking over our country is just not going to jive with Americans anymore. If you don’t learn our language my friend then it will be you that will be left behind and if you can’t deal with that then you can choose to go back to where your language is spoken.