but the fun is that it's written in spanish ... and bad spanish at that ...
meaning the states will be a spanish speaking country in a few decades .....
or did i get it wrong ?
dominique from Paris, france.
No, you didn't get it wrong, Dominique. But it's not completely a
joke either. Hispanics tend to have a higher birth rate than Anglos,
and if you leave that alone for a few generations, the percentage of
the population does change. Except that in Dearborn, you might have
to learn Arabic rather than Spanish. To some of us, this isn't
particularly frightening - my husband and I speak and read both
Spanish and French in addition to English, and I wouldn't mind
learning Arabic (one of my daughters is) -- but to a very large
percentage of "average" Americans, it is intensely threatening.
The real problem is that bilingual education was considered for many
years an ideal way of appreciating and respecting Hispanic culture.
But often the result has been that is has allowed Hispanics in some
areas not to become natively-fluent in English, remaining in what is
in effect a Hispanic ghetto, where the opportunities to advance out
of poverty are relatively limited. Some Hispanics themselves now say
that it is better to speak Spanish at home and learn English to deal
with the outside world, because it opens many, many more doors.
Having originally been in favor of bilingual education, I tend to
agree with them now.
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