My son's putative father's family was all white Spanish-speaking folks, which is one reason he has an excellent accent. (He surprises people with his accent -- you can see them doing doubletakes.) In any case, they'd have to take this up with the American public, and see if they can get other languages incorporated into daily American life.
[rant ON] I am so tired of people complaining about "speaking English only" as if that were the magic ideal for assimilating into this country, and then also complaining that we can't get anywhere overseas because we don't have enough "native speakers" of a language to be able to understand the terrists on the phone. Let's see them learn another language well-enough to communicate daily in it, and then they can complain about all Those People, some of whom are my relatives. [rant OFF]
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Date: 2009-01-29 01:44 pm (UTC)[rant ON]
I am so tired of people complaining about "speaking English only" as if that were the magic ideal for assimilating into this country, and then also complaining that we can't get anywhere overseas because we don't have enough "native speakers" of a language to be able to understand the terrists on the phone. Let's see them learn another language well-enough to communicate daily in it, and then they can complain about all Those People, some of whom are my relatives.
[rant OFF]
Yes. Well.