Yeah, they're assimilating so well that we have to pay extra to have multilingual traffic signs. It's going swimmingly.
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Yeah, they're assimilating so well that we have to pay extra to have multilingual traffic signs. It's going swimmingly.
just stating the facts.
we don't officially have an official language.
I always thought this to be true..... hmmmmm
myth that German was almost the official language
Looks like this fight has always occurred...
AND here is the real crux of this entire thread....Quote:
When German-language farmers in Augusta County, Virginia petitioned the U. S. House of Representatives in 1794 for a German translation of the booklet containing the laws and other government regulations -- copies of which had been distributed free in the English language -- officials simply ignored them. Even the bilingual Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Conrad Mühlenberg, refused to support their modest request. arguing that the faster the Germans became Americans, the better. No doubt, disappointment with his negative, though realistic, posture contributed a generation later to the birth of this legend.1
Can this be said of today's round of immigration?Quote:
This perfectly natural assimilation process, accepted by the majority of German immigrants. who were seeking economic prosperity, was the primary cause for the disappearance of German as a viable vehicle of daily communication in North America.
A possible cause to our own current round of "troubles"?
BUT
They even understood the way back in 1910
Quote:
In every immigrant generation, complaints surfaced about a loss of the German language, but never as often as around 1900. When addressing the German School Society of Cleveland at its annual meeting in 1910, Pastor Karl Weiss avowed that three institutions -- the school, the family, and the Verein [club] -- were the great nurseries for the German language in his adoptive Fatherland:
We demand for the children in our schools a brand of German language instruction that is sufficient both qualitatively and quantitatively; not that we want German placed above English -- this would be foolish and unreasonable -- for we realize that English is the language of our country and that a thorough knowledge of English is absolutely necessary for our children. No, we do not decry the language of the American, nor of anybody else; and in this respect we are again loyally dedicated to our new homeland, our American adoptive fatherland, and we know our duties as patriotic citizens.
we need to start acting more like the french, not talk to them in english until they at least try to speak it to us (and we can understand it).
of course, we can do without all the other frenchie stuff. No white flags for me. ;) Now, where are my Freedom Fries?
see -- American History X.. Make friends, organize.. destroy the local quik-e-mart. :tongue:
3 pages of thread concerning La migra and no mention of our spanish speaking friends?
The spanish conquest is well under way yet again people!
Ill share some of my experience in this realm:
Here in the south your all but FORCED to speak spanish if your a tradesmen. Tradesmen working on different aspects of ANY project have to communicate. NO choice unless u want to end up with a house or structure that looks like a backyard playhouse! It so happens that there are a gazillion spanish speaking construction workers every where u go all thru the south. A gazillion isnt an exageration. Having been a tradesmen for 15years ive felt the effects of excessive La migra first hand. When i say south ive experienced the same inundation of spanish workers from North Carolina to Texas and now Florida. It is unbelievable how many are here and flooding here every single day. Ages works for border patrol, im sure he could site some stories.
Extreme Example: Houston is deemed "little Mexico" by many. Its a city of over a million and a half people and ive heard that its 70% minority lol. Minority lol, funny i know.
Back to the trades, the white man is fast becoming the minority in this business in many facets of the trades at least. Mexicans etc take almost all the sheetrock and painting etc jobs from other would be contractor's simply because they will work for peanuts. When u have 11 people sharing the same 350sqft house riding in the same van sharing that gas bill etc its not hard to do. Ive seen this all to many times for many years with it getting worse and worse every year.
Fortunately for me they dont seem real good at Woodworking, in fact even when it comes to basic framing they often suck at it ive observed. So it hasnt hurt me personally tho Many times there general lack of quality makes other contrators jobs (like mine) down the line a bit of a pain. NOw some of em make good for themselves and learn to do Quality work and even learn ENGLISH! Just not enough of em for the amount of construction jobs they end up with.
SO not only are they everywhere, doing shoddy work, working for peanuts, taking jobs from americans, not speaking english enough, they are starting to get there own SPANISH road signs in my ENGLISH speaking america!!!! Ive been tolerating and observing alot over the years but now them getting there very own native signs in my country really pisses me off! Not only that but many products in the south are labled for english and spanish speaking customers. NOt a few mind u but TONS of products one buys every day. I wanna see english on my products and signs thank u.
I know there are other concerns that stem from immigration, issues of national security even but i think the immigration from south of the border bears quite a significance in the whole scheme of things. Again one must consider the incredible numbers were talking about here both population and $$$. Ive just shared some of my experiences in the states ive been in but i do know that places like California are being slammed in much the same way not to mention how many other states as well. I bring up the trades not just because thats my experience but simply because between the trades and farming thats what the majority of this minority do! These minorities are the majority of immigrants coming here to! lol sorry hadda do it.
If we want to get the wheel back in this country yes we need more regulation and enforcement. Yes weve got all 31 flavors coming here every day but the majority of this problem still starts at the southern border my friends.
/end rant, ramble etc :)