So you end with us being less "tolerant."
If they are smart enough in other countries to know speaking English
will generate more $$$$ so they do, that same idea is magnified in
the US. Even more money for speaking English here.
It's not a matter of toleration. It's a matter of being able to
compete in a society based on cmpetitive capitalism.
Like I said I won't press too hard.
Tell them I'm intolerant, instead of telling them I'm trying to
help. Let them continue to not learn English -
We'll both win - you'll feel tolerant and I'll keep all the money
they could otherwise earn if they learned English.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "fancypaaantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --But everytime we print signs in Spanish, newspapers,
applications,
> have TV stations, radio stations, etc., we make it easier to not
> learn English.---
>
> Last comment on the topic and then I will move on as Oakdorf has
> suggested... I am pretty well traveled, although not nearly as
well
> as I would like, and every where I have been there were all of
these
> (above) in multiple languages. Even throughout Asia, even in
> communist China, signs were translated into English, sometimes
> French, etc. I have watched the BBC and CNN in Hong Kong, Delhi,
> Saigon, Bangkok, etc. And there were MANY English tv stations,
> books, etc in Costa Rica. I could have kept up with American Idol,
> if I was so inclined :) Yet somehow here we have a different
> expectation and tolerance... Everyone MUST speak English. No one
in
> Thailand expected me to speak Thai, nor were they offended bc I
> could not.
>
> Even when my fiance was pulled over for speeding in Costa Rica,
the
> police officer asked if he spoke Spanish when he looked blankly
back
> at him, the officer switched into English. People throughout the
> world make accommodations for us (as English speakers)... Bc as
> Oakdorf would say... the want the $$$$$. But, nevertheless, the
> expectation is different and far more tolerant.
>
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