Overall it is catering to a specific immigrant culture. There is a huge billboard down the highway from me which features a Wells Fargo ad entirely in Spanish so I don't see that as being encouraging at all to the assimilation process. In fact I personally feel that it is telling me that I'm not that important anymore as a customer. It's not just in City Offices that this signage issue is taking place, it is happening everywhere you go. I personally feel the Spanish portion of the signs should be covered up with a bumper sticker that reads. "Aprenda Inglese". The ridiculous signs are the ones like "telephone/telephono" What is the difference between those too words? Are people that stupid that they don't know what the word telephone means?
I'm certainly not saying they should leave the country as in the link, but my issue is that they should take the time to learn the language of the country to which they emigrated. Would it make sense for millions of English speaking people to emigrate to a foreign country, eg; Germany, and have them produce new signage on tax dollars to accommodate our refusal to learn the German language? http://www.wciv.com/news/stories/0508/522475.html Does it really take a sign for someone to realize crossing a highway is dangerous? Should we change "ALL" the stop signs in the country to read "STOP/PARADA? Next thing you know some Iraqi will get killed driving through the intersection opening the way for a lawsuit against the city for not providing signs in the Arabic language. The bridges are a good idea because they serve "everyone" unlike the signs that only serve "Hispanics". That is not fair to all the other "non English speaking" immigrants that come here from "other" countries. Why special treatment of Hispanics? They move here, live eat and work here, and raise families here. I think it is a blatant unwillingness to change. http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=31927 It really seems to me that it is Not a matter of being Politically correct but more a matter of insult and discrimination against "ALL" other immigrants to this country. Why are we catering to "Only" the Hispanic population and why are they unwilling to learn English? Did anyone ever consider how difficult it is getting for everyone else to have to deal with this double language issue? I personally don't know any Hispanics that don't speak English so if they can do it why not the rest? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
