2007 and somehow this country not willing to enforce the laws that supposedly the poeple who hire illegal immigrants are not following. If the jobs weren't paying, they wouldn't be coming here....
I'm SERIOUSLY not an all out racist guy or anything, I consider myself "culture-centric". There has been a severe change in the culture of this city when there are streets and streets of Spanish language businesses and signs. many people speaking Spanish and not learning English. and Chain grocery stores making announcements in Spanish and only hiring those who speak English and Spanish. Just freaks me out, but I guess that is our future in USA. Melting pot indeed! There's something uneven in the mix. And of course I love other cultures and experiencing other cultures, but language and culture sort of go hand in hand, and when you see part of the population perfectly happy living with their native language and culture just in a different location, for example a place NOT Mexico. well there's nothing melting, it's just a change. Change is hard, I guess we just have to live with it since neither party seems to enforce laws which would hinder all the illegal immigration (much less drug smuggling) from happening.
There is current legislation in Oklahoma for making English the official language. some opponents say this builds division. No! It's integration, it's called UNITY in ONE language we all understand and use together. Because what we don't understand we fear, and if we can't communicate in one language we'll never be able to understand each other.. etc etc..
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Interesting....I think that the parties won't do anything becasue both side are afraid to lose votes....And I mean come on...That's what counts right....The fence will never be built and we should all just learn spanish to be able to talk to everyone...My grandfather spoke English, he was from Mexico...All my family members speak English and spanish when it is only needed....I guess that's why I failed spanish in high school....Wait I'm rambling....Again....Nice blog-Take care-perez
I'm a first generation american, my father immigrating from Cuba just before the embargo, and i can only speak english. well, that's not exactly true, i can speak english and some greek. but i think it's sad that americans don't know more languages (a problem i am quickly fixing personally). if you go to france everyone speaks at least english and french. hell, if you go to south africa you get dutch, english, native african, french,...you name it. I fear that america becomes culture-phobic, thinking that our 'american culture', whatever that may be, will be dissolved. but if our culture is so weak to begin with, why save it? just my humble opinion.
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