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No. Citizens in a country where English is the primary language should not be forced to learn a secondary language. I wouldn't expect this in Britain, Canada or any other country that is primarily English in tongue.Should Spanish be a required subject in school?
No. Citizens in a country where English is the primary language should not be forced to learn a secondary language. I wouldn't expect this in Britain, Canada or any other country that is primarily English in tongue.
That being said...ALL schools in the United States should teach English. Proper English.
They should also emphasize the ignorance of "text speech." Nothing says "I suck at life" like receiving an email within a business setting, and the moron author can't form a proper sentence to save his soul.
I think English should be a requirement before you can come to this country to live....period.
So is the way you spell 'speech'.Text speach is bad.
So is the way you spell 'speech'.
Why is it that the people who seem to complain the loudest about everyone should be speaking English have such poor English skills?
You tell me. My Inglish is immoculite.
My guess is that most of the folks who would support mandatory Spanish training are the same ones who opposed English as the Official US Language initiatives......
That is my position. It is a requirement of citizenship that you learn English. So the only reason for learning Spanish is to speak to those who don't belong here. I'm not going to do that. If we send home the 20 million or so using up our resources, we solve a lot more than just a communication problem.
I bet your right.
The sensible forward thinking know that neither English or Spanish should be official or mandated.
Why would we want 300 million+ Americans who speak Spanish? Hell we don't have that many that speak English.
We don't. Did you think that is what I suggested? If so than you need an English class.
Isn't the title of this thread to require Spanish in school? The vast majority of our citizens go to school here so eventually almost everyone would have been taught it. . Would we be teaching it so the students didn't learn it?
However, by law per the Treaty Of Guadalupe, Hispanics in the southwest USA have a special right to speak Spanish.
You may not want to quote something that is based on little but individual BROAD interpretation of something as if it's an undisputable fact. Just because you HOPE that people have never, or would never, do a little research on that topic doesn't mean they won't. The notion of language is not stated ANYWHERE in the entire treaty. The entire basis for the notion that it gives anyone, let alone an extremely broad notion of any hispanic in the southwest USA, a special right to speak spanish is that the contract allowed those directly affected by the treaty could maintain their culture. Even then, under your BROAD interpretation, you're arguing against a strawman....since I've seen no one suggesting it should be illegal to speak spanish.
You can throw the word bigotry around all you want, but bigotry has nothing to do with expecting immigrants to at least attempt to learn the language of the nation they're immigrating to. That's common-****ing-sense.
\A person can be a legal resident without being a citizen. There is no language requirement for legal residents.
Name me one country that's a viable trading partner, that doesn't communicate in English? There's a reason English is the "universal language."Text speach is bad. However, we live in a global economy so we need people speaking multiple languages.
The bigotry is in the assertion that a significant number of Hispanics in the USA refuse to learn English. I have seen no evidence of such a refusal by a large number of Hispanics, yet immigrant haters keep repeating it.
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