MAGGIO
10-21-2008, 21:56
let me preface this with a few things.
Im not perfect. I am ingnorant when it comes to some things like exact history and facts, but I am pretty knowledgable on most subjects.
I am white. I live in a larger city, but not close to the biggest. Annapolis, MD the capital of Maryland between Baltimore, and Wash DC about a 20 min drive each way.
My Topic.
It burns me up when people talk about how english is the only acceptable langauge in the US. I think this is the land of the free, and majority rules to an extent. This suject always seems to be brought up by "white people".
What is wrong with us. A crap load of the people in the US are not white yet we take a crap on every little thing from tradition, heritage, and langauge of other races.
My son is in fourth grade, and everythign that comes home is in both english and spanish. Apparently there are enough hispanic population that the state board of eductation thought they should use both.
When you go to the store you see quite a few products with both english, spanish and sometimes even more langauges. I guess big corp america thinks there is enough other races to take money from.
THIS IS NOT AN immagration thread, but someone just said that illegal aliens dont pay taxes blah blah, but they still buy products from stores in the US which have to pay sales tax, which have employees and products from manufactures, so they do support the US economy, just not as much as say me. Surely they save money better according to most because they send it to their families abroad...maybe we should take a lesson from that, and not over spend and buy more than we can pay for on credit.
YOu know when the white man landed on north america they were not the first here, but as their population grew english naturally became the first lang.
Now we see other populations grow and second and third etc...lang start to emerge everywhere....why are we so pissed about it.
Why must we force ourselves on others like we did with the indians. Maybe we should adjust to our surrounding in the country we created that is supposed to be free. If you dont like not knowing what others are talking about maybe you should learn another lang. I know that sounds like a pain, but your not going to commit a genocide against all the spanish, chineses and other people that live with us now, so maybe we should be the ones making an adjustment, and stop complaining.
Maybe i am dead wrong, maybe it is because I dont live in a small town, with 90+% white people and I am not a "real american" according to Palin...JK....but seriously.
Let me postface this with a few things.
Im not talking about you specifically just because your white. I not talking about everyone, I am not rascist towards white people as I am one. I sware I like Rock and Roll too. I am just trying to understand.
Im not perfect. I am ingnorant when it comes to some things like exact history and facts, but I am pretty knowledgable on most subjects.
I am white. I live in a larger city, but not close to the biggest. Annapolis, MD the capital of Maryland between Baltimore, and Wash DC about a 20 min drive each way.
My Topic.
It burns me up when people talk about how english is the only acceptable langauge in the US. I think this is the land of the free, and majority rules to an extent. This suject always seems to be brought up by "white people".
What is wrong with us. A crap load of the people in the US are not white yet we take a crap on every little thing from tradition, heritage, and langauge of other races.
My son is in fourth grade, and everythign that comes home is in both english and spanish. Apparently there are enough hispanic population that the state board of eductation thought they should use both.
When you go to the store you see quite a few products with both english, spanish and sometimes even more langauges. I guess big corp america thinks there is enough other races to take money from.
THIS IS NOT AN immagration thread, but someone just said that illegal aliens dont pay taxes blah blah, but they still buy products from stores in the US which have to pay sales tax, which have employees and products from manufactures, so they do support the US economy, just not as much as say me. Surely they save money better according to most because they send it to their families abroad...maybe we should take a lesson from that, and not over spend and buy more than we can pay for on credit.
YOu know when the white man landed on north america they were not the first here, but as their population grew english naturally became the first lang.
Now we see other populations grow and second and third etc...lang start to emerge everywhere....why are we so pissed about it.
Why must we force ourselves on others like we did with the indians. Maybe we should adjust to our surrounding in the country we created that is supposed to be free. If you dont like not knowing what others are talking about maybe you should learn another lang. I know that sounds like a pain, but your not going to commit a genocide against all the spanish, chineses and other people that live with us now, so maybe we should be the ones making an adjustment, and stop complaining.
Maybe i am dead wrong, maybe it is because I dont live in a small town, with 90+% white people and I am not a "real american" according to Palin...JK....but seriously.
Let me postface this with a few things.
Im not talking about you specifically just because your white. I not talking about everyone, I am not rascist towards white people as I am one. I sware I like Rock and Roll too. I am just trying to understand.