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If you are working at a job that requires you to communicate with the public then you better know how to speak EnglishOriginally Posted by Essential1
Maybe since they are in America.. They should speak the official language.. Ohhhhhhhhhhh that's right, there isn't one.. People can speak whatever the hell they want... It will be an issue trying to get around but English is not the official language so ahhh well..
For people who don't want to learn English there are many jobs that don't require knowing it, like working in the field or warehouses
bottom line is no one needs to know how to speak English, but if you are working at a job that deals with the public, like food services, then you better know how to speak English or find another line of work
That's profound.Originally Posted by Sighfur
English is the only language I speak and thats why I don't expect everyone in America to speak English.
Just Mexicans? At least you're not a complete racist. And how did you know they were Mexican? Do they walk in wearing flags or name tags that read, "Hola, yo soy Mexicano" ?Originally Posted by wren32
If you wanna live here and be accepted learn english it should be required that before you can be a citizen you must be able to fluently speak english that can be understood by most people. I work at finishline and I hate when mexicans come in and cant speak enligsh or have their kid translate for them. pisses me off.
Originally Posted by LosALMIGHTY
Just Mexicans? At least you're not a complete racist. And how did you know they were Mexican? Do they walk in wearing flags or name tags that read, "Hola, yo soy Mexicano" ?Originally Posted by wren32
If you wanna live here and be accepted learn english it should be required that before you can be a citizen you must be able to fluently speak english that can be understood by most people. I work at finishline and I hate when mexicans come in and cant speak enligsh or have their kid translate for them. pisses me off.
Deal with it.
English is not our official language... how about YOU learn THEIR language?Originally Posted by wren32
If you wanna live here and be accepted learn english it should be required that before you can be a citizen you must be able to fluently speak english that can be understood by most people. I work at finishline and I hate when mexicans come in and cant speak enligsh or have their kid translate for them. pisses me off.
Uhm... nahhh.Originally Posted by SIRIUS LEE HANDSOME
No, English may not be the official language as stated by law here in the USA, but that's what we speak here and that's how we as Americans communicate and conduct business among one another. When people come here from other countries to immerse themselves in our American culture they learn English, not Spanish or any other language. Any other language besides English remains on the fringes of our social fabric as far as how we live our lives here in this country. Accept it.
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 20, 2010
Went to a big Washington dinner last week. You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses. But this was no ordinary dinner. There were 40 guests of honor. So here’s my Sunday news quiz: I’ll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me what dinner I was at. Ready?
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Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.
No, sorry, it was not a dinner of the China-India Friendship League. Give up?
O.K. All these kids are American high school students. They were the majority of the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, which, through a national contest, identifies and honors the top math and science high school students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems. The awards dinner was Tuesday, and, as you can see from the above list, most finalists hailed from immigrant families, largely from Asia.
Indeed, if you need any more convincing about the virtues of immigration, just come to the Intel science finals. I am a pro-immigration fanatic. I think keeping a constant flow of legal immigrants into our country — whether they wear blue collars or lab coats — is the key to keeping us ahead of China. Because when you mix all of these energetic, high-aspiring people with a democratic system and free markets, magic happens. If we hope to keep that magic, we need immigration reform that guarantees that we will always attract and retain, in an orderly fashion, the world’s first-round aspirational and intellectual draft choices.
This isn’t complicated. In today’s wired world, the most important economic competition is no longer between countries or companies. The most important economic competition is actually between you and your own imagination. Because what your kids imagine, they can now act on farther, faster, cheaper than ever before — as individuals. Today, just about everything is becoming a commodity, except imagination, except the ability to spark new ideas.
If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it. I can use Amazon.com to handle fulfillment. I can use freelancer.com to find someone to do my logo and manage my backroom. And I can do all this at incredibly low prices. The one thing that is not a commodity and never will be is that spark of an idea. And this Intel dinner was all about our best sparklers.
Before the dinner started, each contestant stood by a storyboard explaining their specific project. Namrata Anand, a 17-year-old from the Harker School in California, patiently explained to me her research, which used spectral analysis and other data to expose information about the chemical enrichment history of “Andromeda Galaxy.
You picked the wrong thread to type like an idiot, buddy.Originally Posted by mYKiCkZArEaG21
its funny u bring this up..... brazilians are the WORST wen it comes to this..... have u ever been in best buy and listen to them asking for help?? it goes something like this..... "PLEASE PLEASE do u have 30 JIGGA ipod??"......... YES THEY SAY JIGGA INSTEAD OF GIG LMAOOOOOOOOO...... also have u noticed in best buys that get ALOT of tourist they have signs that say word 4 word "Here Pay" at the registers..... LMAOOOOOOOOO its so funny to me...... also at Nike wen they say the name Nike they dont pronounce the E they say it how they see it....... this is how brazilians ask 4 stuff at Nike "PLEASE PLEASE do have Rift, Tight, Shox??"........ LMAOOOOOOOOO its so funny how they ask 4 things without adding a S to the end of there words....... na but 4REAL if u eva wana no if sum1 is brazilian just check if they have Nike Rifts or Nike Shoxs on with Nike Tights running around Best Buy asking for JIGGA ipods LMAOOOOOOOOO!!! (wen I 1st heard them say that I was like..... "huh Jigga What??..... Hov???" LMAOOO