Why do people hate Hispanics?
People throw fits because some people say the pledge of allegiance in Spanish? It's still the pledge of allegiance.
People get mad because some businesses accept pesos? It's still currency.
Get over it, people. Not all people speak God's language and some people don't have God's currency.
Some idiots just have to find something to bitch and moan about.
Originally Posted by proud gonzo
A local businessman here in Houston is receiving death threats because he accepts pesos.
My God in Heaven. What a reason to kill a man. He must be the next Hitler.
True.
I don't have a problem with the Pizza Peso thingy.
I have a problem with those bastages entering the country ILLEGALLY!
wouldn't you want to use dollars if you were in Mexico?
i'd bet you could charge more for taking Pesos (is that illegal?)
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Uh, I have a problem with the Mexican pledge being said at a school.
I have problems with illegal aliens crossing our borders.
I have a problem with illegal aliens getting anything from this country except for a ride back to where they come from...
Everything progressives do is aimed at weakening democracy, capitalism and the social and cultural institutions that support those things...... They are about subjugating people and being a ruling class.
i could agree with those things
I don't know that it's hatred of hispanics. I think it's more related to the constant bending-over-backwards to cater to people who aren't supposed to be here in the first place (illegal aliens). And if they are here legally, they should learn our language and use our money, etc. If I moved to Germany, I wouldn't expect everyone to provide tax forms in English, customer service phone menus in English (press 1 for billing, press 2 for technical support), street signs in English, and accept US dollars at stores and restaurants. I'd learn Germanian and use Marks and Euros. The people that run the cafeteria where I work are nearly all hispanic immigrants but they all speak enough English to do their job - the cashier speaks excellent English. I truly respect the effort they put in to adapt.
Couldn't have been said better.
At my son's school, they have classes just for spanish speaking kids where there is no english spoken. Why? All that is doing is saying Hey it is ok to live here an not know the language.
If I were going to jump the border to another country I would learn the language and make Danmed sure my kids knew the language.
I do not hate Hispanics....the majority are nice people, However...they have a tendency to be lazy and want things handed to them b/c they are too ignorant to learn English to communicate with society.
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i don't get not making them learn English in school, or allowing anyone that doesn't belong here in school in the first place
as for tax forms and businesses catering to them, that has to do with money. anything that gets the money flowing easier is going to happen here
i dont think its irrational to expect immigrants to conform to some sort of assimilation......i think its possible for mexican immigrants to do this without losing any of their heritage or dignity
the pesos for pizza thing, not a huge deal but you know......its a gimmick imo....
i dont like the idea of the pledge of allegiance being recited in another language by an illegal immigrant
My great-grandma came here from Norway over a century ago. She refused to even teach her kids Norwegian, so they wouldn't have to overcome a language barrier to be part of American culture like she did. Why do today's immigrants, legal or not, feel entitled to not have to speak the same language the rest of us do?
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because they don't have to
Ditto, my mother tells me of one of my great grandfathers (I think great-cubed) sitting at the dinner table one day and said German would no longer be spoke in the house. They were in America and needed to speak English. They still spoke German, and in Wisconsin in the late 1800s it was a bit hard not to, but most of the time they spoke English from then on...
That's what it means assimilate and join in the concept of becoming an American.
Everything progressives do is aimed at weakening democracy, capitalism and the social and cultural institutions that support those things...... They are about subjugating people and being a ruling class.
Clarification: Are they reciting the Mexican pledge of allegiance or the U.S. pledge of allegiance in Spanish? Big difference, so far as I'm concerned. Doesn't matter what language it's recited in so long as the sentiment is there.
As for accepting pesos...WGARA? Should I start sending death threats to businesses who accept Canadian currency? Crap, I think I have a Canadian quarter in my pocket right now.
Personally, I think the assimilation argument has some legs, though not as many as people would think. First and second generation Irish and Italians still identified with Ireland and Italy pretty heavily when those waves of immigration came through. The Irish, of course, already spoke English, but a quick walk through the North End of Boston will disabuse you of any notion that the first couple waves of Italian immigrants were all that concerned with fitting in. With those caveats, though, there wasn't a HUGE effort made to publish government forms in Italian. I guess I have some sympathy for someone who immigrates legally but doesn't speak the language yet, and certainly doesn't speak it well enough to navigate a government form.
"The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental proceses that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked." INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (Burger, C.J.)
I don't think anyone's arguing that death threats are acceptable.
If I migrated to Vietnam, I don't think I'd get all huffy if they didn't accommodate this non-Vietnamese speaking gringo.
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Well, obviously the people making them think they're OK.
But no, I don't see anyone on this board thinking that kind of thing is all right. Hell, the guy's a private businessman. It's his business to accept payment any way he wants, so long as he also accepts U.S. dollars.
"The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental proceses that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked." INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (Burger, C.J.)
It's because they're brown.
hoser.
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