D W, the first European language in North America was Spanish, almost 100 years before the British arrived. Christopher Columbus wrote his diary in Spanish. The first cities and states in the US (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nevada, California, etc.) have Spanish names cause they were founded by Spanish conquerers. The dollar was a Spanish currency. Spanish army helped American army fighting against the British in the independence war.... if you love the US and its history you should also love Spanish language and learn it.
@@Bigtay68 sorry but if didn't know indigenous hispanics ancestors been here before even before your family came here to the land of THE AMERICAS. That's the continent in case u don't recall and now you live in the United States of ?? Sorry to pop the bubble but we were here before you.
By some of these idiots' logic, I should be able to go to Spanish-speaking countries and DEMAND that they speak English and adapt the languages I want to speak!
I'm a Mexican and I think that it is better to have a country united by a common language. It makes it a lot easier. You shouldn't have to learn German if you want to travel east, or French when you travel west, Spanish in the south, this makes it very hard. I think it's great to have people learn other languages but there has to be a unifying language
Well for the US it'd be easiest to be English. You can give Spanish a great degree of autonomy in the southwest though, kind of like Gallego in Galicia, or Catalán in Catalonia
You and I know very well a language doesn't unify neither achieves the opposite (look at the americas, way more divided than the EU). It's all about bullshit being discussed at Congress by haters. People learns a language that gives sense to their day-to-day actions. "Disrespectful to have a city in the US whose official language is spanish?" Bullshit again. What's next? Mexicans will have to forgo catholic faith to get into the US? Man, let's keep it straight: no adopting the so-called "american culture" (which I still struggle to identify), no willingness to stay there, appart from economical reasons. Just for the record, I speak french, english and danish (spanish, obviously) and would like my fellow Mexicans living in the US to learn english.
No, don't take this the wrong way. I'm Mexican, and my native language is Spanish. I really like my language and take pride in it. I think it's one of the most beautiful languages in the world. I think Mexicans should keep their language and the Mexicans who speak Spanglish, they should pick up a book on Spanish and learn it. However, in the US, the Mexicans should learn English since it's the majority language in the United States. The southwestern United States is a complicated matter though since it was part of Mexico/ the New Spain. I was in another video where a Texan girl refused to say the Mexican national anthem, " because it was AMERICA OMG it was horrible... " These guys were commenting on why she was smart and stuff. I think that they were really stupid. Anyways, if there were other people in Mexico or Spain or Colombia they should learn Spanish, if there are people in Japan they should learn Japanese, if there are people in Germany they should learn German, if there are people in Somalia they should learn Somali. Also it's even better that you do since it gives you advantages and puts you up to the persons level. You are not disadvantaged and also you will make friends with the locals easier and better, doesn't everyone want that? Like even making an effort is good, I know how it is to learn a new language it's hard and takes a long time, but sometimes even when you know a few basic words, they open up and even help you
Nice to meet you Oscar, it's a delight to meet another Mexican polyglot :). I also am at an intermediate level in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. My minor is Japanese and I've been studying Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, Indonesian and some Arabic and Korean on my own. I actually have a UA-cam channel of me speaking and teaching Asian languages and other languages to both the English speakers and Spanish speakers. Check it out if you're really into languages ;) Also, that other video about the Texan girl and the other people commenting left a sour taste in my mouth and reminds me how rude and hateful other people can get. I felt like I was the crazy one trying to reason with them at the end.
And you too! I've never tried with asian languages, but I'm quite sure it can only get better. I'm living in France now, and there's a large arab community in my city. It's probably a good idea starting to learn their language and get a significant approach to their culture. Poor girl. Shamefully you can still find those closed-minded in the world... Not our fault!
English is the lanuage of this country!! However if they are going to chose to have only one foreign language, that discriminates against everyone else who does not have there language included. No one told these people to come live here. Americans should not adapt to immigrants. They should adapt to us!
I am a Hispanic but live in Florida, raised by English speaking parents, I think the US should have an Official language of English, because in South Florida, everything has been given to Spanish speakers, there are 7 different Spanish language channels, all city services will only hire people who can speak spanish, Many Americans who don't speak Spanish can't find jobs, because companies can legally discriminate against non Spanish Speakers under Florida law.
As a polyglot speaking German, English, and Spanish, I think it's great to encourage learning foreign languages and all that. But this is America. I think if you come here to live permanently, you should have a good understanding of the English language. Just as you would need to do so if you went to Germany. You'd need that to communicate and all that Jazz. I don't think us Americans should be narrow minded about the situation though, like we can't come across as a bunch of tyrants.
I just mean "this is America" as in it's most spoken language is English in the US. There wasn't any other underlying meaning to that statement. I'm not the kind of person to say "this is america, so speak english or leave!" I am totally open to people learning/speaking any language they want (I learned 4) but i just was trying to say it would be useful for people to know english since it's the most commonly spoke language in the US. That's all!
English don't control earth a very weak small people.. the world doesn't like English Speaking people.. and South America outnumber usa and Canada combined.. usa is the minority on this continent and the minority of strength which rule the planet.. usa is originally the south Americans and indigenous= non Europeans.. Europeans are non Americans and were never invited and couldn't fight enough people to try and over rule spanish original americans and war with any other nation now would destroy usa currently usa can't afford internal and external battles and 184 countries know that.. Europe's choice do you want to live or die.. make the wrong choice and adios Europe..
heck, untill WW2. there were towns in the upper midwest that had folks that could NOT speak english. some towns had german only speakers who were even 3rd generation Americans. the war woke them up into learning english. or otherwise get into major trouble.
The reason is: they provide CHEAP LABOR. 1. Garden works, construction work, children care, cleaning tasks, dishwashing, orange and strawberry crops... The reality of cheap labor, you produce money by giving orders to others (and moreover you complain because they do not understand all what you say!!!).
Not having the official term in front of it, really means nothing. It is the official and you know it. Liberals and pussy conservatives won't pass that, but it means zip whether it is official or not.
What if I got other things I would like to learn? Why should I be forced to to HAVE to learn Spanish? What if Spanish is NOT what I want to learn? How about French, German, Italian or some other language because someone here who does NOT belong here cannot or will not learn to speak what I learned here.... FUCK THAT SHIT!
Troodon65 They are the dumb fucks coming here expecting some kind entitlement stupid. I do not have to speak Spanish or what fucking ever shitty language want to buddy so fuck them is my god damned point I got better things to do with my time. They want shit from me, then it is totally on their ridiculous asses to speak to me in MY LANGUAGE dip shit, not the other way around. Were you just born broken? I go there, It is my responsibility to know their fucked up language, because if I am there I want/need something. Look here kid, how many years in school did you have to take STUPID 101, and not understand this?
America is an English speaking country. I think it should be the official language. Why that has never been implemented as a law I don't know. I don't mind people speaking different languages, in fact, I want to learn other languages. I'm not gonna go to France, or Germany and expect them to know English. If I chose to live there, I'd have to know their language. Thats all, if they want to live in America and get by, then learn English.
If they really want to immigrate to this country, then, they should learn to speak English, since this is a country where we speak english, not spanish, and they should respect our laws and traditions, but I see many hispanic people disrespecting our laws. Also, I hate when they don’t have to learn to speak English because the government serve them in their language. Just declare English as the official language of USA.
Well speaking as a Spanish speaker I'm not going to argue, it'll be pointless. But keep in mind that English is one of the hardest languages to learn. I mean, I say, at least make the effort to learn English which is what most of you are saying. But seeing as my mom is constantly struggling with learning the language, the transitions for some who are willing to learn is not an easy one.
ok me being trilingual English, Spanish and Portuguese. I feel that it is important if you are living in the united states to know English. but I don't not feel that we have to limit ourselves to only knowing one language. I wish I would have grown up in a fully bilingual home because it will help you in many ways. personally for me, being raised in a Spanglish household I like speaking in Spanish more but I do feel that knowing English is essential in this country.
Bruh sometimes its doo doo being black American I love being black but we have no other language but english coming up I'm tryna learn espanol ahora y soy veinte cuatro
@1coolguysuper thats not what happens here, I have worked jobs at local retail stores, so many families came in during the halloween season, many times I could here the parents and the kids speaking only in spanish, some of the kids would try talking to me in spanish, and I couldn't understand them, and I had to get an employee who can speak spanish to find out what they need, when I go to costco I hear families talk, the children as young as 3 speak spanish, the parents raise them in spanish.
immigrants who speak Spanish need to appreciate America and its freedoms, do not come to America an impose ur language, that's not right, if u leave ur native country and come to American u came for a reason, if an American goes to any Spanish speaking country they cannot demand for service in English, be thankful for being in this country and learn English not talk about taking over, if u didn't want to learn English why not stay in your own native country? why immigrate her or come here illegally? what about germans French Chinese Indians etc, they all learn English whats the problems with latinos refusing to learn English ? if people from other countries can do so who are you not to? some people are just unappreciative that's the problem, if u live in the usa and earn us dollard printed in English and u cant even speak the language the very money u work for is printed in how stupid and ridiculous is that? u wanna come to this country and ur here all u can do is show gratitude and learn English it will be better for u and ur family in the long run so why fight against it?
Pete clarke America is the name of the continent!! United States of America is the name of your country! U.S.A. belongs to America, not the entire continent. ;)
My ancestors from French Canada learned english, Immigrants from Russia, France, Germany, all learned English. If latinos want more respect then stop making us bow down to your language.
Robert Lee, too bad you didn't inherit their smarts. Your grammar is worse than mine. I speak 3 languages. My first language being Spanish. I am able to read and speak fluently in all 3 languages. So much for being a lazy spanish speaker! By the way, hope you at least know how to speak spanish since it is your origin. That is, if I would even consider Puerto Rican spanish a proper language......what I would call one of THE laziest ways to speak a romance language.
Jeremy Deville ehhh... usually kids and young adults are able to learn any language very easy, the younger they are , the faster they learn, so you can't try to push your language or any other language on a 50+ year old person.... so they are not refusing because they are trying be jerks..
Im an immigrant and I learned english. English is my first language. These immigrants are lower breed mentality who think america should cater to them. They cant even fix their country with their language yet think coming to america with their spanish is going to it make america better. These people are here to take over using their language.
@1coolguysuper When I am near Sedanos, Hispanic people come up to me and starting talking to me in spanish wither with a comment or question, and all I can say to them in "Yo no Hablo espanol" I could only imagine how hard it would be if I had to live in Miami dade county, I wouldn't be able to survive.
So....by that logic....if there is an influx of Haitians....should the nation become trilingual ??? Learn English !!! How do you think Cuban, in all its communism is able to train people from around the world. Do you really think a Cuban university teaches in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French ???? No. When you come to Cuba to study, you learn Spanish or go home. The same should apply if you go to the USA or any other English speaking country.
I'm Mexican American I speak Spanish and English I speak Spanish to my people in Mexican stores that they own the same way that a Italian American does when they go to a Italian American owed place but we must learn English in Mexico immigration law one who wants to live there must speak Spanish and help the economy if they are a immigrant this means no people who are with issues poverty drug dealers rapist etc etc let's follow Mexican immigration laws to help America have order
@@ivanparker8438 English is a little dry, there's no flare like Spanish and Italian. I would even say Japanese and Korean are more lively languages than English.
You are right, there are several spanish languages (castillian, catalan, euskera, gallego, etc) but castillian is the far most extended and is known as "spanish". We really speak castillian.
I am from northern Idaho and everybody there speaks english. If you do not want to speak english that is fine with everyone up here, you will just be kicking rocks due to the fact that no one will hire or deal with you because of the language barrier. Just learn english. I had to learn Japanese when I lived in Japan because most can speak english but most will not lower themselves to speak it.
Im black and amrerican, I speak Spanish ,French ,as well as English . I also think that this goes both ways. Although English is widely spoken in the USA , so is Spanish. We should each try to learn the greater majority of each others languages so all can run smoothly again. Personally, I think that it's mainly ( not necessarily racist) but small mineded prejudiced ppl that want other languages like Spanish to be snipped out they're afraid of change.
As I said, I'm not live in USA, I don't know about language issues there. I understand what you say. USA want just the "good" things about being empire: political control over other countries and wealth extraction from every place and every people concentrating it, but don't want the "bad" side: to have immigration and losing the "purity" of its culture (language, for example). They won't be able to avoid that...
Try South Florida, Every language in the world is spoken here. Local governemnt information is provided in English, Spanish & Creole. Also tourism uses French, German, & Portuguese. Some other languages linked to tourism also include Russian, Swedish, or any few more. That makes speaking even proper English impossible to do since most costumers in this market speak a language other than English. I am myself Hispanic and learned British English before I came here, I had problems too. .
Well,I just see this interesting discussion,until now.And I agree 100%,that foreign people who want to become American Citizens,MUST TO LEARN ENGLISH!!!.I`m foreign,but I was living in the U.S.A.,and the first thing I did,was to go to College,to learn propper English!!!.
About mix of Spanish and English, this is a phenomenon happening right now in USA. Most spanish speakers at hispanic countries don't like it because feel the particularities and beauty of language is losing, but this phenomenon has happened many times in human history. Maybe in future there will be a new wonderful language, but for now I prefer spanish with its own particular form.... :) But I know, nothing is forever....
I don't like their discrimination against immigrants. But let's be clear on this immigrants are people that come from other countries other than the United States. Not just Spanish speaking countries. There is a huge job discrimination in the city of Miami or I would say South Florida to be exact against people who do not speak Spanish. The trick is they use this word called bilingual. No matter how much degrees or experience you have within that job if you're not bilingual or I would say don't know how to speak Spanish you would not get that job. It is not fair for anyone living in Miami who does not know how to speak Spanish but has experience in degrees in which the career they are applying for should be denied because they don't speak a language that is not the national language.
You missed out the most widely spoken indigenous language of the UK; Cymraeg/Welsh.. All of us Welsh speakers are proud to be bi-lingual (either speaking Welsh/English in the UK or Welsh/Spanish in Argentina) and we are encouraged to learn more languages. The most popular extra languages for Welsh speakers in the UK to learn are Breton, Irish, French, Spanish and Japanese. In Argentina it is English, Portuguese and Chinese. Cymry am byth! Welsh forever! Viva la galés!
Neil Armstrong Indeed. In about 20 years AI robots are going to do just what we do but even better. I don't give a dum what people use to communicate to each other. I don't speak with humans just because they aren't like me.
USA does not have an official language only a language which is speaking by a majority (English) and by a minority (Spanish) , so I do not understand why so much drama xD
In Hispania (roman province which is now Spain) latin language merged with language of peoples as celtiberic and visigodos producing several languages, one of them is Castilian, better knows as Spanish. It began to speak since Middle Age but around 800 years ago there is literature and poetry with rules and grammar. Of course for modern spanish speakers is hard to understand the original version of that, sometimes those texts are "translated" to a language form closer to speakers today.
I don't think it matters what language people speak in the United States as long as they came to this country legally. Not anything else really matters.
as far as i know The United states of America doesn't have an official language ..? English is the language of business and trade in America for what I heard
This argument does not hold, because even though it's somewhat true, the truth is that the USA did steal all of the states with Spanish names, there is also the fact that most american are migrants, comers from countries in Europe whee they speak different languages and therefore for most of them it's the most logical answer, to speak in English only, but for Spanish speaking people it's more difficult first of all because the Spanish language is much broader spoken than any other language in the world, add to that the fact that most Americans live with the fear that all of the Spanish states are going to be stolen back from them one day and who knows it may just happen. Plus the Spanish and the English have always clashed on this issue.
That's absurd! No language is superior to another. However, in America, we happen to speak English. It's moronic to move to a foreign country and expect that nation to cater to you. America does more than it's fair share of being hospitable to immigrants. Immigrants should meet us halfway and learn English.
Menos rollo, que aun estamos esperando que pagueis el prestamo de 500 millones de pesos fuertes o dolares españoles que os prestamos para vuestra revolucion de independencia, mas 10 millones de dolares por el tratado de Onis sobre las dos floridas. Ojo, que el tratado se hace efectivo con el pago, asi que oficialmente las floridas y otros territorios teoricamente aun es suelo español. Aparte, si por el tratado respetais religion y haciendas, por logica tambien la lengua. Ya os lo pasasteis por el arco del triunfo con los seminolas, que segun la constitucion de 1812, eran españoles de pleno derecho.
I'd like to see Spanish and English taught from an early age in our public schools. Teaching our kids to be bilingual is a realistic solution to the inevitable demographic changes in the US.
Yo soy español. En España hay 1 lengua oficial y 3 más cooficiales. Tener un estado multilingüe es complicado, pero es más justo que los que excluyen todas las lenguas excepto una. El español es una lengua internacional con mucho peso y en realidad el bilingüismo es algo muy positivo para EEUU porque lo conecta culturalmente con más regiones del mundo aparte de las anglofonas. Además es ridículo excluir una lengua que históricamente ha estado vinculada a la región mucho antes que el inglés y que forma parte de su historia desde el principio.
Dude! we are not talking about YOUR language! It is the guttural dialect that those from south of the border of the USA speak. it is not YOUR Spanish but the poor butchered Spanish they speak.
Are you talking about Spanglish or about Mexican Spanish? Anyway. "We never crossed the border, the border crossed us?" Hahaha! First: Despite it's not the cause of this inmigration wave, US crossed the border and got a huge amount of Mexico's territory in XIX Century (that's why the city of this video is called "El Cenizo" not "Cinder Town" or kindish). Second: During XX Century up today, not US citizens, but US multinational companies and National Intelligence Agencies had crossed the borders southward impeding a healthy developement of Latinamerican regions, using imperialistic polices, getting huge profits, and seeding poverty between those people. So US crossed the border first, and here we are the consecuences. In the other hand, this is a border town, and people don't get a language just by crossing the border, it's normal there are people who doesn't speak English. Instead of forgetting spanish in official bussines, that doesn't help to integration, US should have an educational plan to teach English to those who doesn't speak it.
Again more crap about countries polices. Why must you make up such lies? You cannot "bend" the truth so what you say is real, when it isn't . Those countries asked for US businesses to be there. Get your facts straight! More lies about country boundaries again? FACT - each of the countries in south America already had borders. Maybe it was wrong for the US to accept those invitations to set up shop there to them. By what lies you say, the US held a gun to their heads and demanded we have our businesses there! Do you know how insane you sound? Pander your bull shit history to the fools who believe your lies. I know what is actually history and not your "version" of it. And as for the "SPIES" you talk of... Duh every FUCKING country has them you twit. Some more than others but seriously to say one country is NOT using them is just plain wrong! Each of these countries were not financially solvent. Why would they invite foreign business if they were... Please! These people need to "own" up to what they did and fix their shit and stop coveting ours.
Don't get anger with my answer, I haven't any thing against US citizens except your blind faith in your rulers. How can you say that those countries asked US businesses to be there? Shops aren't the big problem, Monsanto, Coca-cola, Microsoft and kindish are the problem. Multinational lobbies push governments to make able the policies they want to, they fund olligarchies to rule for their interest against people's ones. Twits of CIA aren't the big problem, the overthrow of democracies to put fascist dictatorships in the power, are the problem. Of course that countries are not finantially solvent, when they have tried to be, there was your country there to impede it by force, by seizing and boicotting, by scaming finantially via FMI, etc. ¿They invite you? FACTS: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialismo_estadounidense (it's better to read it in the spanish version, in the English one you don't realize how far US has gone, maybe because you don't want to realize it, by thinking that "these people need to "own" up to what they did and fix their shit and stop coveting ours.") And yes, US History sounds insane because IS insane, like any other Empire. Anyway, you don't have the monopolly of that kind of insanity in the world, Russia or China are both good exemples today, the problem is when you high up the flag of democracy and freedom in one hand and in the other you opress in the name of your comercial interests. Came on, do you really continue believing that lie? because in the rest of the World we don't. We call that "Hipocresía", hahaha, exactly what we spanish did with religion there... centuries ago. New word in Spanish: HIPOCRESÍA: When finally you find your borders full of peolpe that run away from the consecuences of your policies and you don't recognize your responsability.
You can speak 80 languages if you want, but 1 of them has to be English if you want to be an American citizen. Studies have shown that countries with multiple official languages or no official languages are less unified.
I consider it is much more important to preserve culture and diversity than disseminating the xenofobia and hatred against the different citizens in the US. The growing sick nationalism and the current intolerance towards different expretions and cultures in the US is generating this kind of repretion. I totally disagree with this kind of policies.
And another thing: telephone operators at Chase Bank are given more time per call if they are working on the Spanish language access lines. So speaking Spanish is a waste of time in addition to all the expenses of having to communication with illegal aliens in Spanish when they shouldn't be here in the first place.
How would someone who doesn't speak English know about American politics in order to vote? If I were to go to a different country, I would atleast do my best to learn enough of that language to get me by. It's common-freaking-sense. I'm sure any country gets fed up with people who don't know the language of that country.
Europeans are acutely aware of how important language is although many of them speak several languages. What you don't see, however, are those countries caving in to having more than one official language.
if you refuse to speak Navajo in the country where the Navajos are Natives, then why spanish-speaking people should speak english in a country where english people are not natives?
In Spain, a very diverse country, people who don't speak castellano are not forced to learn it in order to be able to vote, just for the simple fact that, THEY ARE SPANISH CITIZENS, BECAUSE THEY WERE BORN THERE... what kind of thoughtless government tries to repress the natural desition of a human being, about speaking the language it wants.There we have the very known hipocresy, talking about the cradle of the liberties, and repressing any time we need to defend our fictitious nationalism.
What about the large amount of Koreans and Chinese in the US? If we cater to one group, we should cater to everyone. So, let's just eliminate debate and just learn every single language :-P
Oh please. Spanish was the first european language spoken in the USA. Most names of the States are taken from Spanish words Nevada: means "snowy land" Florida: "Full of flowers" Colorado: "Of Red color" California: from Caliente + Fornia "Hot cavern" Texas: "Tiles" Montana: "Mountain" Arizona: "Arid Zone" etc. So Spanish should remain important in the USA.
Nothing I said was closed-minded. I actually have taken 3 years of Spanish. I also want to learn French and Italian. All I said was that no language was superior to another and that immigrants should try to learn the native language (majority native). I wouldn't move to Cambodia and expect them to cater to me by speaking English. Certainly, it would be nice, but it's a ridiculous expectation to hold and one that doesn't show a willingness to embrace the culture. It's a reciprocated respect
Spanish originated in spain not everyone in spain speaks Spanish, latin americans are from their own native country not from spain so why focus only on Spanish , many latinos are from indian ancestry native people what about their native languages, chechua and others? some of u latin americans who are so proud of Spanish have forgotten about their own native indian people language be proud of ur native people spain took their lands and conquered the natives and brought in Spanish, so stop with the Spanish it is a language from Europe native people are not europeans
Sorry to tell you that the spaniards obliged "our ancestors" to learn spanish at gunpoint. I'm f__king proud of speaking spanish as mother language though I have african, amerindian, jewish, arab and european blood flowing through my half-caste veins. I strongly recommend you learn English. For if that's your only choice, you better stay silent. In any case, which language shall I speak? Your argument proves to be senseless.
I made a statement that is factual, what is the problem? How old are you guys? Don't you have anything else to do? I made a statement in response to the video, I didn't ask for a response. And for your info, im not in a fucking English lit or grammar class this is UA-cam so why the hell should I be focused on how I'm writing? Please let people state what they want and stop with the bitchiness and drama, find something else to do.. like I said what I stated was the truth, be proud of your native ancestors not proud of the people who murdered and plundered them etc, also the Spanish were the ones who started slavery in the new world , why the hell would I be proud of people who did all that and their language? And Oscar, you are worse than a female . Why do you sound so bitchy? I guess you are looking for someone to argue with aren't you? Find something else to do, kid, don't be mad about facts, be angry about lies. Right now in some parts of mexico there are native people who do not speak a word of Spanish, the world mexico is not even a Spanish world, the world Cuba is not a Spanish world, mexico city was not founded by the Spaniards it was already in existence. Be proud of your ancestors who occupied north central and south america for thousands of years, not the folks who stole the land and forced some of your ancestors to speak their language, I wish I had native blood in my veins , I would be so proud of that. Bottom line, Spanish will never be a native language of the Americans , it is a language that was forced unto the natives. It is a European language, no wonder most people from Spain look down on you folks from Latin america, they despise the fact that their language is now spoken by some of you folks and a lot of them hate the way you speak their language, if you have native blood maybe you need to learn a native language of your ancestors who were forced to speak another. Only a jackass would say they aware proud of Spanish. The Spanish people of Spain are the only ones who should be proud of Spanish, unless your parents are direct descendants of Spain then you should have no reason to be proud, some of you have way more native blood than European, yet some of you easily forget what the natives went through. Quite sad. I'm not here to argue and fight with anyone, I'm way more mature than that, if you guys choose to continue arguing it shows how immature you both are, I'm done. I will not response.
Also I don't need to learn English, it is the only language I speak, my grammar with regards to what I initially wrote is the way that it is because I was rushing to type on my phone, because like I stated before this is UA-cam and I'm not here to write perfect English because I don't need to prove anything, I made a statement and that's it, I'm not writing an essay or in English literature class, thank you very much but no thanks I don't need to learn English if you feel the need to write perfectly grammatize english , then by all means go ahead, you have something to prove, I do not. I'm not here for that purpose.
If Spanish speaking people want Spanish to be a national language, or feel that they love their language and think it is the most beautiful language and they want to speak it all the time.... they can easily do this by returning to their Spanish speaking nation home. We American English speaking citizens are fine with that. And why wouldn’t you go home where you love your culture and your language. We don’t like either. Bye
Don't push the country to learn English, instead learn different languages¡ What's wrong with being able to speak Spanish and English at the same time? The people living in the United States should be proud to own an heritage as rich as the Latino. I am sure the music, the food, even the English language benefits from this.
Whoa...let us understand one thing here. No language is superior, just different. I would say that we need to do away with English or Spanish only, we need to make Americans BILINGUAL at best.
issue. I've traveled outside the U.S. several times and do attempt to know some of the language to bridge the language gaps. So, before you fly off the handle and insult someone, you might actually "listen" to what they're trying to say before you attack them to make yourself feel superior.
When you are a guest in someone else's home it's always a good practice to follow the rules and practices of those whose home you have entered.
Sorry, but Spanish was spoken in the south long before English speakers took the land, so, what's the point of this conversation?
Projeto R.M. If you want to speak Spanish, go back to your country.
D W, the first European language in North America was Spanish, almost 100 years before the British arrived. Christopher Columbus wrote his diary in Spanish. The first cities and states in the US (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nevada, California, etc.) have Spanish names cause they were founded by Spanish conquerers. The dollar was a Spanish currency. Spanish army helped American army fighting against the British in the independence war.... if you love the US and its history you should also love Spanish language and learn it.
You are so right
@@Bigtay68 sorry but if didn't know indigenous hispanics ancestors been here before even before your family came here to the land of THE AMERICAS. That's the continent in case u don't recall and now you live in the United States of ?? Sorry to pop the bubble but we were here before you.
By some of these idiots' logic, I should be able to go to Spanish-speaking countries and DEMAND that they speak English and adapt the languages I want to speak!
You can demand whatever you want, doesn’t mean anyone will listen.
The difference is Americans are being tourists these Hispanics LIVE HERE and have been for decades without even learning a single word
I'M from Venezuela but i agree with the fact that english should be the main language.if you are bilingual great but english should be put first.
Tu eres. Idiots.
great you are bilingual @@JuanLopez-eg5fi
el malan malan Pinche idiota español siempre va a estar primero
@@JuanLopez-eg5fi English has USA official languages
@@gauravthorat6497 wrong, the US has not official languages. please learn the fact en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
That's why people across the world speak English, and only a tiny percentage speak Spanish, right?
I'm a Mexican and I think that it is better to have a country united by a common language. It makes it a lot easier. You shouldn't have to learn German if you want to travel east, or French when you travel west, Spanish in the south, this makes it very hard. I think it's great to have people learn other languages but there has to be a unifying language
Well for the US it'd be easiest to be English. You can give Spanish a great degree of autonomy in the southwest though, kind of like Gallego in Galicia, or Catalán in Catalonia
You and I know very well a language doesn't unify neither achieves the opposite (look at the americas, way more divided than the EU). It's all about bullshit being discussed at Congress by haters. People learns a language that gives sense to their day-to-day actions. "Disrespectful to have a city in the US whose official language is spanish?" Bullshit again. What's next? Mexicans will have to forgo catholic faith to get into the US? Man, let's keep it straight: no adopting the so-called "american culture" (which I still struggle to identify), no willingness to stay there, appart from economical reasons.
Just for the record, I speak french, english and danish (spanish, obviously) and would like my fellow Mexicans living in the US to learn english.
No, don't take this the wrong way. I'm Mexican, and my native language is Spanish. I really like my language and take pride in it. I think it's one of the most beautiful languages in the world. I think Mexicans should keep their language and the Mexicans who speak Spanglish, they should pick up a book on Spanish and learn it. However, in the US, the Mexicans should learn English since it's the majority language in the United States. The southwestern United States is a complicated matter though since it was part of Mexico/ the New Spain. I was in another video where a Texan girl refused to say the Mexican national anthem, " because it was AMERICA OMG it was horrible... " These guys were commenting on why she was smart and stuff. I think that they were really stupid. Anyways, if there were other people in Mexico or Spain or Colombia they should learn Spanish, if there are people in Japan they should learn Japanese, if there are people in Germany they should learn German, if there are people in Somalia they should learn Somali. Also it's even better that you do since it gives you advantages and puts you up to the persons level. You are not disadvantaged and also you will make friends with the locals easier and better, doesn't everyone want that? Like even making an effort is good, I know how it is to learn a new language it's hard and takes a long time, but sometimes even when you know a few basic words, they open up and even help you
Nice to meet you Oscar, it's a delight to meet another Mexican polyglot :). I also am at an intermediate level in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. My minor is Japanese and I've been studying Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, Indonesian and some Arabic and Korean on my own. I actually have a UA-cam channel of me speaking and teaching Asian languages and other languages to both the English speakers and Spanish speakers. Check it out if you're really into languages ;)
Also, that other video about the Texan girl and the other people commenting left a sour taste in my mouth and reminds me how rude and hateful other people can get. I felt like I was the crazy one trying to reason with them at the end.
And you too! I've never tried with asian languages, but I'm quite sure it can only get better. I'm living in France now, and there's a large arab community in my city. It's probably a good idea starting to learn their language and get a significant approach to their culture.
Poor girl. Shamefully you can still find those closed-minded in the world... Not our fault!
English is the lanuage of this country!! However if they are going to chose to have only one foreign language, that discriminates against everyone else who does not have there language included. No one told these people to come live here. Americans should not adapt to immigrants. They should adapt to us!
I am a Hispanic but live in Florida, raised by English speaking parents, I think the US should have an Official language of English, because in South Florida, everything has been given to Spanish speakers, there are 7 different Spanish language channels, all city services will only hire people who can speak spanish, Many Americans who don't speak Spanish can't find jobs, because companies can legally discriminate against non Spanish Speakers under Florida law.
As a polyglot speaking German, English, and Spanish, I think it's great to encourage learning foreign languages and all that. But this is America. I think if you come here to live permanently, you should have a good understanding of the English language. Just as you would need to do so if you went to Germany. You'd need that to communicate and all that Jazz. I don't think us Americans should be narrow minded about the situation though, like we can't come across as a bunch of tyrants.
I just mean "this is America" as in it's most spoken language is English in the US. There wasn't any other underlying meaning to that statement. I'm not the kind of person to say "this is america, so speak english or leave!" I am totally open to people learning/speaking any language they want (I learned 4) but i just was trying to say it would be useful for people to know english since it's the most commonly spoke language in the US. That's all!
Speaking anything other than English in this country is far worse than saying the N-word.
English don't control earth a very weak small people.. the world doesn't like English
Speaking people.. and South America outnumber usa and Canada combined.. usa is the minority on this continent and the minority of strength which rule the planet.. usa is originally the south Americans and indigenous= non Europeans.. Europeans are non Americans and were never invited and couldn't fight enough people to try and over rule spanish original americans and war with any other nation now would destroy usa currently usa can't afford internal and external battles and 184 countries know that.. Europe's choice do you want to live or die.. make the wrong choice and adios Europe..
@@glenb1426 Nonsense.
@@Princeroo12 people who refuse to speak English should be JAILED AND DEPORTED!
heck, untill WW2. there were towns in the upper midwest that had folks that could NOT speak english. some towns had german only speakers who were even 3rd generation Americans.
the war woke them up into learning english. or otherwise get into major trouble.
ENGLISH IS AN INTERNATION LANGUAGE AND YOU KNOW IT !!!
The reason is: they provide CHEAP LABOR.
1. Garden works, construction work, children care, cleaning tasks, dishwashing, orange and strawberry crops...
The reality of cheap labor, you produce money by giving orders to others (and moreover you complain because they do not understand all what you say!!!).
you should always speak the language of the country you live in. everyone wins. but liberals always want their alternate reality acknowledged.
Ya'll got no official language thou.
Not having the official term in front of it, really means nothing. It is the official and you know it. Liberals and pussy conservatives won't pass that, but it means zip whether it is official or not.
exacto,.,,,, En USA se habla el Espanol
And they wonder why they are so mistreated.
What if I got other things I would like to learn? Why should I be forced to to HAVE to learn Spanish? What if Spanish is NOT what I want to learn? How about French, German, Italian or some other language because someone here who does NOT belong here cannot or will not learn to speak what I learned here.... FUCK THAT SHIT!
Troodon65 They are the dumb fucks coming here expecting some kind entitlement stupid. I do not have to speak Spanish or what fucking ever shitty language want to buddy so fuck them is my god damned point I got better things to do with my time. They want shit from me, then it is totally on their ridiculous asses to speak to me in MY LANGUAGE dip shit, not the other way around. Were you just born broken? I go there, It is my responsibility to know their fucked up language, because if I am there I want/need something. Look here kid, how many years in school did you have to take STUPID 101, and not understand this?
dddemon, learn whatever makes you happy and contented. :)
Troodon65 If he does not want to learn, he should not be forced to. Browbeating him and calling him "lazy" will not win anyone over.
America is an English speaking country. I think it should be the official language. Why that has never been implemented as a law I don't know. I don't mind people speaking different languages, in fact, I want to learn other languages. I'm not gonna go to France, or Germany and expect them to know English. If I chose to live there, I'd have to know their language. Thats all, if they want to live in America and get by, then learn English.
It is just plain disrespectful to migrate to a country and not even bother to learn their language....
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if an American is in a Spanish speaking country, wouldn't he speaking English with another American?
Americannn???? which country from america? panama,usa,colombia,argentina?????
Remember...English came from ENGLAND...English is a FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
SPANISH IS FROM SPAIN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
English is unified USA
Not Spanish
If they really want to immigrate to this country, then, they should learn to speak English, since this is a country where we speak english, not spanish, and they should respect our laws and traditions, but I see many hispanic people disrespecting our laws. Also, I hate when they don’t have to learn to speak English because the government serve them in their language. Just declare English as the official language of USA.
inmigrate??? YOU are an immigrant from some shithole of england or ireland,
Espanol es la lengua del futuro y de todo el continente Americano
Well speaking as a Spanish speaker I'm not going to argue, it'll be pointless. But keep in mind that English is one of the hardest languages to learn. I mean, I say, at least make the effort to learn English which is what most of you are saying. But seeing as my mom is constantly struggling with learning the language, the transitions for some who are willing to learn is not an easy one.
Bruh JUST READ AND SAY THE WORDS ITS NOT THAT HARD TO LEARN ENGLISH!
Dude, just speak English if you move to USA. It's a matter of respect; not just getting ahead.
ok me being trilingual English, Spanish and Portuguese. I feel that it is important if you are living in the united states to know English. but I don't not feel that we have to limit ourselves to only knowing one language. I wish I would have grown up in a fully bilingual home because it will help you in many ways. personally for me, being raised in a Spanglish household I like speaking in Spanish more but I do feel that knowing English is essential in this country.
Bruh sometimes its doo doo being black American I love being black but we have no other language but english coming up I'm tryna learn espanol ahora y soy veinte cuatro
@@riyoosestafford Spanish is also a European language. Why not learn African language?
@@riyoosestaffordthey take that from us remember Spanish is another European language
@1coolguysuper thats not what happens here, I have worked jobs at local retail stores, so many families came in during the halloween season, many times I could here the parents and the kids speaking only in spanish, some of the kids would try talking to me in spanish, and I couldn't understand them, and I had to get an employee who can speak spanish to find out what they need, when I go to costco I hear families talk, the children as young as 3 speak spanish, the parents raise them in spanish.
If Americans wants everyone to speak English why not create a language police like Quebec.
immigrants who speak Spanish need to appreciate America and its freedoms, do not come to America an impose ur language, that's not right, if u leave ur native country and come to American u came for a reason, if an American goes to any Spanish speaking country they cannot demand for service in English, be thankful for being in this country and learn English not talk about taking over, if u didn't want to learn English why not stay in your own native country? why immigrate her or come here illegally? what about germans French Chinese Indians etc, they all learn English whats the problems with latinos refusing to learn English ? if people from other countries can do so who are you not to? some people are just unappreciative that's the problem, if u live in the usa and earn us dollard printed in English and u cant even speak the language the very money u work for is printed in how stupid and ridiculous is that? u wanna come to this country and ur here all u can do is show gratitude and learn English it will be better for u and ur family in the long run so why fight against it?
Pete clarke America is the name of the continent!! United States of America is the name of your country! U.S.A. belongs to America, not the entire continent. ;)
You are absolutely right 👍
Oh I forgot
Bentley motor cars = one of the most luxurious cars in the world = English... cetainly not spanegroid language, lmfao
People should also learn 𝕲𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖈 languages.
My ancestors from French Canada learned english, Immigrants from Russia, France, Germany, all learned English. If latinos want more respect then stop making us bow down to your language.
Robert Lee, too bad you didn't inherit their smarts. Your grammar is worse than mine. I speak 3 languages. My first language being Spanish. I am able to read and speak fluently in all 3 languages. So much for being a lazy spanish speaker! By the way, hope you at least know how to speak spanish since it is your origin. That is, if I would even consider Puerto Rican spanish a proper language......what I would call one of THE laziest ways to speak a romance language.
Jeremy Deville ehhh... usually kids and young adults are able to learn any language very easy, the younger they are , the faster they learn, so you can't try to push your language or any other language on a 50+ year old person.... so they are not refusing because they are trying be jerks..
Suzy Q I do Spanish, English, and Portuguese , not trying to be lazy here lol
Who doesn't know how to write or speak in English, I really feel ashamed of those folks who feel more than others.
Im an immigrant and I learned english. English is my first language. These immigrants are lower breed mentality who think america should cater to them. They cant even fix their country with their language yet think coming to america with their spanish is going to it make america better. These people are here to take over using their language.
@1coolguysuper When I am near Sedanos, Hispanic people come up to me and starting talking to me in spanish wither with a comment or question, and all I can say to them in "Yo no Hablo espanol" I could only imagine how hard it would be if I had to live in Miami dade county, I wouldn't be able to survive.
Yo hablo español pero uno deberia hablar ingles y saber lo para vivir en este pais, por respeto al pais que te esta dando todo
31 states have English as the official language with more to follow.
So....by that logic....if there is an influx of Haitians....should the nation become trilingual ???
Learn English !!!
How do you think Cuban, in all its communism is able to train people from around the world. Do you really think a Cuban university teaches in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French ????
No. When you come to Cuba to study, you learn Spanish or go home.
The same should apply if you go to the USA or any other English speaking country.
I'm Mexican American I speak Spanish and English I speak Spanish to my people in Mexican stores that they own the same way that a Italian American does when they go to a Italian American owed place but we must learn English in Mexico immigration law one who wants to live there must speak Spanish and help the economy if they are a immigrant this means no people who are with issues poverty drug dealers rapist etc etc let's follow Mexican immigration laws to help America have order
If you want to learn other languages it's fine but in this country we should all speak English
Quite frankly, no❤️ English is such a boring and ghetto language. Imagine being proud to only speak that
@@ivanparker8438 Honestly
@@lemmedrivedaboat5848 right like how you proud to say you ONLY speak English
Learn the languages to speak it
@@ivanparker8438 English is a little dry, there's no flare like Spanish and Italian. I would even say Japanese and Korean are more lively languages than English.
You are right, there are several spanish languages (castillian, catalan, euskera, gallego, etc) but castillian is the far most extended and is known as "spanish". We really speak castillian.
Notice how everyone arguing on here is responding to each other in English 😂
I am from northern Idaho and everybody there speaks english. If you do not want to speak english that is fine with everyone up here, you will just be kicking rocks due to the fact that no one will hire or deal with you because of the language barrier. Just learn english. I had to learn Japanese when I lived in Japan because most can speak english but most will not lower themselves to speak it.
Im black and amrerican, I speak Spanish ,French ,as well as English . I also think that this goes both ways. Although English is widely spoken in the USA , so is Spanish. We should each try to learn the greater majority of each others languages so all can run smoothly again. Personally, I think that it's mainly ( not necessarily racist) but small mineded prejudiced ppl that want other languages like Spanish to be snipped out they're afraid of change.
As I said, I'm not live in USA, I don't know about language issues there. I understand what you say. USA want just the "good" things about being empire: political control over other countries and wealth extraction from every place and every people concentrating it, but don't want the "bad" side: to have immigration and losing the "purity" of its culture (language, for example). They won't be able to avoid that...
Try South Florida, Every language in the world is spoken here. Local governemnt information is provided in English, Spanish & Creole. Also tourism uses French, German, & Portuguese. Some other languages linked to tourism also include Russian, Swedish, or any few more. That makes speaking even proper English impossible to do since most costumers in this market speak a language other than English. I am myself Hispanic and learned British English before I came here, I had problems too. .
Well,I just see this interesting discussion,until now.And I agree 100%,that foreign people who want to become American Citizens,MUST TO LEARN ENGLISH!!!.I`m foreign,but I was living in the U.S.A.,and the first thing I did,was to go to College,to learn propper English!!!.
About mix of Spanish and English, this is a phenomenon happening right now in USA. Most spanish speakers at hispanic countries don't like it because feel the particularities and beauty of language is losing, but this phenomenon has happened many times in human history. Maybe in future there will be a new wonderful language, but for now I prefer spanish with its own particular form.... :) But I know, nothing is forever....
I don't like their discrimination against immigrants. But let's be clear on this immigrants are people that come from other countries other than the United States. Not just Spanish speaking countries. There is a huge job discrimination in the city of Miami or I would say South Florida to be exact against people who do not speak Spanish. The trick is they use this word called bilingual. No matter how much degrees or experience you have within that job if you're not bilingual or I would say don't know how to speak Spanish you would not get that job. It is not fair for anyone living in Miami who does not know how to speak Spanish but has experience in degrees in which the career they are applying for should be denied because they don't speak a language that is not the national language.
You missed out the most widely spoken indigenous language of the UK; Cymraeg/Welsh.. All of us Welsh speakers are proud to be bi-lingual (either speaking Welsh/English in the UK or Welsh/Spanish in Argentina) and we are encouraged to learn more languages. The most popular extra languages for Welsh speakers in the UK to learn are Breton, Irish, French, Spanish and Japanese. In Argentina it is English, Portuguese and Chinese. Cymry am byth! Welsh forever! Viva la galés!
I just have one word for them, "This is America and We Speak American".
+Neil Armstrong you're uneducated
Neil Armstrong Indeed. In about 20 years AI robots are going to do just what we do but even better. I don't give a dum what people use to communicate to each other. I don't speak with humans just because they aren't like me.
English
quuieres decir ESPANOL
@@raulmaldonado5921 NO ESPANOL
Estupido angloamericano inmigrante 😆😆
Everything should be in english in america only just as everything in mexico is in spanish.
How can you have a debate with someone who doesnt speak the same language?
USA does not have an official language only a language which is speaking by a majority (English) and by a minority (Spanish) , so I do not understand why so much drama xD
In Hispania (roman province which is now Spain) latin language merged with language of peoples as celtiberic and visigodos producing several languages, one of them is Castilian, better knows as Spanish. It began to speak since Middle Age but around 800 years ago there is literature and poetry with rules and grammar. Of course for modern spanish speakers is hard to understand the original version of that, sometimes those texts are "translated" to a language form closer to speakers today.
Just download Spanish onto your brain. Problem solved
Actually, Mandarin (Chinese) is #1, Spanish is #2, English is #3
tener en cuenta que en EE.UU se hablaba mucho antes el español que el ingles.
Tower of babel all over again
I don't think it matters what language people speak in the United States as long as they came to this country legally. Not anything else really matters.
Aprender español . O no sois capaces?
I'm trying to, it isn't easy though. I do recognize it's gonna be important to speak it in the US.
Freedom of speech Will set you free.
El Español es la lengua del futuro, así que ve aprendiéndola.
Learn Hindi then
Where the hell is part 2 of 7
The language has to be Chinuk Wawa..... That will solve all our problems!
«No señor de ninguna manera.» -Miguel Pérez.
Spanish is very powerful have a lot of culture great music. And also you can understand portugués italiano and french.
as far as i know The United states of America doesn't have an official language ..? English is the language of business and trade in America for what I heard
This argument does not hold, because even though it's somewhat true, the truth is that the USA did steal all of the states with Spanish names, there is also the fact that most american are migrants, comers from countries in Europe whee they speak different languages and therefore for most of them it's the most logical answer, to speak in English only, but for Spanish speaking people it's more difficult first of all because the Spanish language is much broader spoken than any other language in the world, add to that the fact that most Americans live with the fear that all of the Spanish states are going to be stolen back from them one day and who knows it may just happen. Plus the Spanish and the English have always clashed on this issue.
Spain and mexico should've never gave spanish speaker lands to USA
That's absurd! No language is superior to another. However, in America, we happen to speak English. It's moronic to move to a foreign country and expect that nation to cater to you. America does more than it's fair share of being hospitable to immigrants. Immigrants should meet us halfway and learn English.
America should speak native Americans
I'll speak whatever the hell language I want to, any time, any place, and if other people don't like it, well, boo-fuckin'-hoo.
Menos rollo, que aun estamos esperando que pagueis el prestamo de 500 millones de pesos fuertes o dolares españoles que os prestamos para vuestra revolucion de independencia, mas 10 millones de dolares por el tratado de Onis sobre las dos floridas. Ojo, que el tratado se hace efectivo con el pago, asi que oficialmente las floridas y otros territorios teoricamente aun es suelo español. Aparte, si por el tratado respetais religion y haciendas, por logica tambien la lengua. Ya os lo pasasteis por el arco del triunfo con los seminolas, que segun la constitucion de 1812, eran españoles de pleno derecho.
I'd like to see Spanish and English taught from an early age in our public schools. Teaching our kids to be bilingual is a realistic solution to the inevitable demographic changes in the US.
ONE NATION = ONE LANGUAGE, *PERIOD!*
This is an ENGLISH LANGUAGE NATION!
In America
Only English ❤
Yo soy español. En España hay 1 lengua oficial y 3 más cooficiales. Tener un estado multilingüe es complicado, pero es más justo que los que excluyen todas las lenguas excepto una. El español es una lengua internacional con mucho peso y en realidad el bilingüismo es algo muy positivo para EEUU porque lo conecta culturalmente con más regiones del mundo aparte de las anglofonas. Además es ridículo excluir una lengua que históricamente ha estado vinculada a la región mucho antes que el inglés y que forma parte de su historia desde el principio.
Total y absolutamente de acuerdo
Dude! we are not talking about YOUR language! It is the guttural dialect that those from south of the border of the USA speak. it is not YOUR Spanish but the poor butchered Spanish they speak.
Are you talking about Spanglish or about Mexican Spanish? Anyway.
"We never crossed the border, the border crossed us?" Hahaha!
First: Despite it's not the cause of this inmigration wave, US crossed the border and got a huge amount of Mexico's territory in XIX Century (that's why the city of this video is called "El Cenizo" not "Cinder Town" or kindish).
Second: During XX Century up today, not US citizens, but US multinational companies and National Intelligence Agencies had crossed the borders southward impeding a healthy developement of Latinamerican regions, using imperialistic polices, getting huge profits, and seeding poverty between those people.
So US crossed the border first, and here we are the consecuences.
In the other hand, this is a border town, and people don't get a language just by crossing the border, it's normal there are people who doesn't speak English. Instead of forgetting spanish in official bussines, that doesn't help to integration, US should have an educational plan to teach English to those who doesn't speak it.
Again more crap about countries polices. Why must you make up such lies? You cannot "bend" the truth so what you say is real, when it isn't . Those countries asked for US businesses to be there. Get your facts straight! More lies about country boundaries again? FACT - each of the countries in south America already had borders. Maybe it was wrong for the US to accept those invitations to set up shop there to them. By what lies you say, the US held a gun to their heads and demanded we have our businesses there! Do you know how insane you sound? Pander your bull shit history to the fools who believe your lies. I know what is actually history and not your "version" of it. And as for the "SPIES" you talk of... Duh every FUCKING country has them you twit. Some more than others but seriously to say one country is NOT using them is just plain wrong! Each of these countries were not financially solvent. Why would they invite foreign business if they were... Please! These people need to "own" up to what they did and fix their shit and stop coveting ours.
Don't get anger with my answer, I haven't any thing against US citizens except your blind faith in your rulers. How can you say that those countries asked US businesses to be there? Shops aren't the big problem, Monsanto, Coca-cola, Microsoft and kindish are the problem. Multinational lobbies push governments to make able the policies they want to, they fund olligarchies to rule for their interest against people's ones. Twits of CIA aren't the big problem, the overthrow of democracies to put fascist dictatorships in the power, are the problem. Of course that countries are not finantially solvent, when they have tried to be, there was your country there to impede it by force, by seizing and boicotting, by scaming finantially via FMI, etc. ¿They invite you? FACTS: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialismo_estadounidense (it's better to read it in the spanish version, in the English one you don't realize how far US has gone, maybe because you don't want to realize it, by thinking that "these people need to "own" up to what they did and fix their shit and stop coveting ours.") And yes, US History sounds insane because IS insane, like any other Empire. Anyway, you don't have the monopolly of that kind of insanity in the world, Russia or China are both good exemples today, the problem is when you high up the flag of democracy and freedom in one hand and in the other you opress in the name of your comercial interests. Came on, do you really continue believing that lie? because in the rest of the World we don't. We call that "Hipocresía", hahaha, exactly what we spanish did with religion there... centuries ago.
New word in Spanish: HIPOCRESÍA: When finally you find your borders full of peolpe that run away from the consecuences of your policies and you don't recognize your responsability.
You can speak 80 languages if you want, but 1 of them has to be English if you want to be an American citizen. Studies have shown that countries with multiple official languages or no official languages are less unified.
I hope to learn English sometime, I like the sound of it.
We speak American. The British speak English.
I consider it is much more important to preserve culture and diversity than disseminating the xenofobia and hatred against the different citizens in the US. The growing sick nationalism and the current intolerance towards different expretions and cultures in the US is generating this kind of repretion. I totally disagree with this kind of policies.
And another thing: telephone operators at Chase Bank are given more time per call if they are working on the Spanish language access lines. So speaking Spanish is a waste of time in addition to all the expenses of having to communication with illegal aliens in Spanish when they shouldn't be here in the first place.
I don't think that one has to speak english to vote ! I doubt that all American citizens speak english.
@mg5679 i speak navajo do i need to learn english americans?????
How would someone who doesn't speak English know about American politics in order to vote?
If I were to go to a different country, I would atleast do my best to learn enough of that language to get me by. It's common-freaking-sense.
I'm sure any country gets fed up with people who don't know the language of that country.
Europeans are acutely aware of how important language is although many of them speak several languages. What you don't see, however, are those countries caving in to having more than one official language.
There are many many many countries with more than one official language. Spain (castallano, gallego, catalán), Mexico (castilian, nahuatl...)
i meant "but loving spanish spanish heritage as part of 'our' culture", not "by"
if you refuse to speak Navajo in the country where the Navajos are Natives, then why spanish-speaking people should speak english in a country where english people are not natives?
I'll speak whatever the hell language I want to, any time, any place, and if other people don't like it, well, boo-fuckin'-hoo.
In Spain, a very diverse country, people who don't speak castellano are not forced to learn it in order to be able to vote, just for the simple fact that, THEY ARE SPANISH CITIZENS, BECAUSE THEY WERE BORN THERE... what kind of thoughtless government tries to repress the natural desition of a human being, about speaking the language it wants.There we have the very known hipocresy, talking about the cradle of the liberties, and repressing any time we need to defend our fictitious nationalism.
What about the large amount of Koreans and Chinese in the US? If we cater to one group, we should cater to everyone.
So, let's just eliminate debate and just learn every single language :-P
Oh please. Spanish was the first european language spoken in the USA.
Most names of the States are taken from Spanish words
Nevada: means "snowy land"
Florida: "Full of flowers"
Colorado: "Of Red color"
California: from Caliente + Fornia "Hot cavern"
Texas: "Tiles"
Montana: "Mountain"
Arizona: "Arid Zone"
etc. So Spanish should remain important in the USA.
in usa it was english dumbass
Idiot, the first city in the USA was St Agustine, Florida. 100% spanish no english
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida
Duran MK Ultra you dumbass. original 13 colonies did not include florida lol.
Duran MK Ultra oldest city, but its not the first jamestown is more like it
"Oldest but not the first" that's an oxymoron...said by a moron
What's the big deal!? This was expected and predicted to happen! That's why most of us grew up taking Spanish in elementary and high school.
Nothing I said was closed-minded. I actually have taken 3 years of Spanish. I also want to learn French and Italian. All I said was that no language was superior to another and that immigrants should try to learn the native language (majority native). I wouldn't move to Cambodia and expect them to cater to me by speaking English. Certainly, it would be nice, but it's a ridiculous expectation to hold and one that doesn't show a willingness to embrace the culture. It's a reciprocated respect
Muy de acuerdo contigo. Soy español y maestro de inglés aquí. Me parece penoso lo que les pasa a los angloparlantes.
Spanish originated in spain not everyone in spain speaks Spanish, latin americans are from their own native country not from spain so why focus only on Spanish , many latinos are from indian ancestry native people what about their native languages, chechua and others? some of u latin americans who are so proud of Spanish have forgotten about their own native indian people language be proud of ur native people spain took their lands and conquered the natives and brought in Spanish, so stop with the Spanish it is a language from Europe native people are not europeans
Sorry to tell you that the spaniards obliged "our ancestors" to learn spanish at gunpoint. I'm f__king proud of speaking spanish as mother language though I have african, amerindian, jewish, arab and european blood flowing through my half-caste veins.
I strongly recommend you learn English. For if that's your only choice, you better stay silent.
In any case, which language shall I speak? Your argument proves to be senseless.
I made a statement that is factual, what is the problem? How old are you guys? Don't you have anything else to do? I made a statement in response to the video, I didn't ask for a response. And for your info, im not in a fucking English lit or grammar class this is UA-cam so why the hell should I be focused on how I'm writing? Please let people state what they want and stop with the bitchiness and drama, find something else to do.. like I said what I stated was the truth, be proud of your native ancestors not proud of the people who murdered and plundered them etc, also the Spanish were the ones who started slavery in the new world , why the hell would I be proud of people who did all that and their language? And Oscar, you are worse than a female . Why do you sound so bitchy? I guess you are looking for someone to argue with aren't you? Find something else to do, kid, don't be mad about facts, be angry about lies. Right now in some parts of mexico there are native people who do not speak a word of Spanish, the world mexico is not even a Spanish world, the world Cuba is not a Spanish world, mexico city was not founded by the Spaniards it was already in existence. Be proud of your ancestors who occupied north central and south america for thousands of years, not the folks who stole the land and forced some of your ancestors to speak their language, I wish I had native blood in my veins , I would be so proud of that. Bottom line, Spanish will never be a native language of the Americans , it is a language that was forced unto the natives. It is a European language, no wonder most people from Spain look down on you folks from Latin america, they despise the fact that their language is now spoken by some of you folks and a lot of them hate the way you speak their language, if you have native blood maybe you need to learn a native language of your ancestors who were forced to speak another. Only a jackass would say they aware proud of Spanish. The Spanish people of Spain are the only ones who should be proud of Spanish, unless your parents are direct descendants of Spain then you should have no reason to be proud, some of you have way more native blood than European, yet some of you easily forget what the natives went through. Quite sad. I'm not here to argue and fight with anyone, I'm way more mature than that, if you guys choose to continue arguing it shows how immature you both are, I'm done. I will not response.
Also I don't need to learn English, it is the only language I speak, my grammar with regards to what I initially wrote is the way that it is because I was rushing to type on my phone, because like I stated before this is UA-cam and I'm not here to write perfect English because I don't need to prove anything, I made a statement and that's it, I'm not writing an essay or in English literature class, thank you very much but no thanks I don't need to learn English if you feel the need to write perfectly grammatize english , then by all means go ahead, you have something to prove, I do not. I'm not here for that purpose.
Can Spanish speakers who live inside the 1856 borders claim indigenous status?
If Spanish speaking people want Spanish to be a national language, or feel that they love their language and think it is the most beautiful language and they want to speak it all the time.... they can easily do this by returning to their Spanish speaking nation home. We American English speaking citizens are fine with that. And why wouldn’t you go home where you love your culture and your language. We don’t like either. Bye
English = 30% german, 30% french, 25% latin, 5%old english and 10% (greek, italian, spanish etc).
it should be a law to learn inglish I did
Don't push the country to learn English, instead learn different languages¡ What's wrong with being able to speak Spanish and English at the same time? The people living in the United States should be proud to own an heritage as rich as the Latino. I am sure the music, the food, even the English language benefits from this.
Learn Hindi then
No it's not, the international language of the world is English.
Only English in America ❤
Whoa...let us understand one thing here. No language is superior, just different. I would say that we need to do away with English or Spanish only, we need to make Americans BILINGUAL at best.
you must admit that America is built with more languages,identities and cultures than the only W.A.S.P. (White, AngloSaxon, Protestant).
issue. I've traveled outside the U.S. several times and do attempt to know some of the language to bridge the language gaps. So, before you fly off the handle and insult someone, you might actually "listen" to what they're trying to say before you attack them to make yourself feel superior.