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Published: 2009-04-16 07:06:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 1732; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Okay..normally I'm a very mild going laid back person. But today is just not the best of days. Last day of tax season thank heaven.Now before anyone decides to rant on me, I have tons of friends who speak plenty of other languages and English for most of them is a second language. But they freakin' learned it and they agree that to be here you should know it. That is my belief that is how I feel, I'm tired of all the hypocritical bs and how soft this country has become. People don't have to work half as hard as they used to get half as far.
And for those that are working twice as hard, they are being told they are overqualified or 'not what we're looking for'
Yay America!
Now.. I got that out of my system. Feel free to enjoy this stamp if you are of so like in mind. For anyone else that would like me to create a stamp for your country please do not hesitate to note me with the country and what you would like it say.
I am an equal opportunity b*tch.
Or as my shirt says..I have spread my hate equally amongst all of you. So don't think you're special or nothing.
I feel better now
Thanks for listening.*SG*
Credit for the original flag stamp:: [link]
Edit: yes I just noticed the funky shadow thingy. I had to reformat so as soon as I get my PS back that will be fixed
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Well, the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.
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i say americans can shut up and take it till they learn every native tribe's language first.
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Some part of my Native American side just laughed his fucking ass off at this comment. [In agreeance, I do love this comment.] c: But, I do agree, the Native American's are pushed aside and were forced to learn English, yet everyone takes this as "we were only teaching them". Bullshit.
Either way, c: Just had to share my love for this comment.
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You should only have to learn the native tongue in the native country.
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Now I agree if you move ANYWHERE you should learn the native language but...
I've worked with people in an ESOL program who come to this country speaking another language. Many of them are quite older and have a hard time. Now of course they want to learn, but it takes a while, and it's kind of scary for them to talk to someone who's a native speaker.
Now when I'm on the phone talking to someone, trying to set up doctors appointments and what not, of course I want someone who can speak English very well. But is it such a crime for automated phone services? If it's not their first language, and it's something important, certainly they'd want to make absolutely sure they were understanding everything correctly.
I really have to ask... Have you ever known someone as they were trying to learn English? Have you ever tried to learn another language and speak it in it's native country? Because it sounds like you haven't. And unless you learn young and do it for years, it's rarely anything but a frightening experience.
Not that I haven't ever been annoyed when everyone around me was speaking a language other than English, but is it that bad if they choose to speak it to others who do? I mean if they know English is it that big of a problem? Especially when it's a way to keep their heritage while still being a citizen of the USA. Losing your roots is a terrible thing, though there should be some assimilation. And when a person moves here, at least with my students... So much changes and it's over whelming. A lot of them didn't have houses like they did, cars, etc and all the things that are normal and essentially needed to thrive in America. Is it wrong for them to keep one comfort of home if they make an effort to speak out language too?
Like it or not, the USA is a huge melting pot. I don't see any problem with people speaking other languages so long as they learn the national one. I don't see the problem with accents either. And I don't care if I go to Chinatown, have the cashier take my order in English and then have the take the man behind me's order in Chinese. This is the USA, I was born here, and there's a lot of things I don't like about it, but the cultural diversity is one of the things I DO like.
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Amen to that! I'm an ESL teacher in Canada, and believe me, some of my older students have a pretty rough time adjusting to not only the language, but the lifestyle change. Simply expecting everyone to speak English right after they've arrived is ignorant and naive.
Plus, y'know, America has no official language. So there you go!
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I know, they have a really hard time with the big houses and cars and everything. Gods forbid we make something a bit easier for them.
And these people are so agitated about having the press one for English... I think they should stop complaining, because they could have to press TWO for English.
America is a melting pot, it's been that way for years. They're so overly patriotic they forget that. America goes on about being the greatest country in the world, etc etc... That makes a lot of people want to come here, so yeah there's gonna be people coming in who don't speak the language.
The whole tantrum over it is just stupid.
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I notice that there's a lot of Spanish in this site. IDK if deviantart has a Spanish alternate.
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IDK... it's just annoying.
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-shakes head- one more reason not to go to Cali.
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Well I'm of the opinion that Americans speak American anyway (my friend from the UK says we're pronouncing everything wrong XD). But I completely agree. If an American were to go to another country like France, or Spain, or Japan they would have to speak the language. And that's okay. But because America takes in other nationalities we have to make room for all those languages? I'm sorry but the original 13 colonies that made up America spoke English and all of the documents that defined this nation are in English (and no they weren't written in other languages for convenience).
It's not racist, it's honest. You go to the country you speak the language. We're not asking to hand over cultural identities we're asking to learn the language of the land. You can't melt into the pot if you refuse to melt in.
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I totally agree with your statements... But shoudn't that be a union jack?
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Hi there, I'm from Mexico City and a couple of years ago I went on vacation to Brownsville, EVERYONE was speaking in Spanish!! And I was really thinking how... awful it must be for People from the U.S.A. (Sorry, but America is a whole continent) to have their country invaded (cause it's technically an invasion) in such a way that some places don't even speak their own language anymore, and completely agree with you on that point, even if I'm on the other side of the river.
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I'm debating on my next stamp to be something more directed at learning the culture of the place you're going to. And America isn't the continent, North America is
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Finally someone clears me that one... In Mexico we often speak of America as the whole block (North, South and Central).
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Yea it's not quite that broad
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Ok now don't go getting all bent outta shape at this comment but technically ...... those in America speak american not english.
We use the word english as the founding fathers were from England for the most part (yes I know there were French and Spanish and others too).
Yes I say I speak english more often than I say I speak american but may just maybe if we all agreed it was to be called american in America other people from other countries may say oh look they finally figured out the are not English.
Just a thought.
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I actually completely agree with you on that statement. My husband spend several years while in the military in England and it took me weeks to understand half the things he was saying since their structure of things is so different from ours. So yes I do agree, we speak American, not English.
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Fuggin-AY-MEN to that.
What language is the congressional record published in?
What language are the laws encoded into the supreme court library?
What language was the declaration of independence written in?
It COULD have been Spanish - it COULD have been French, or German or even LATIN.
It is what it is, and so there you go.
If I lived in France or Belarus or Greece or Indonesia - I better damn well learn the local language if I expect to survive and get along. I wouldn't expect any special consideration - other than patience while I learned it, and in my experience, most people ARE patient. But If I were to assert myself, say in Finland that they MUST all speak my native language ... and I arrogantly disrespected their country's cultural heritage ... if I DEMANDED half of my classroom time was devoted to teaching my in my own native language and taking time away from the other students ... I would likely be met with much of the same resistance. Yes it's a cold blooded stance to take. Immigrating is difficult as it is - (assuming one does it LEGALLY of course)I think we do have a responsibility to make FREE CLASSES available to those wishing to integrate their culture into our tossed salad here. But to have to press "1" to pay my phone bill? Enough is enough. I say LEARN, ADAPT or GTFO ... the same as any other country would.
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I'm 'foreign' as you'd put it and I totally agree. You live in the country, you learn the langue. 'nuff said.
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Thanks
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