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Friday, April 25, 2008

English Please!

I am an immigrant to this country!
I may have came when I was young but never the less I was not born here and my parent were not either. Yet one thing that we all did when we came to America was LEARN ENGLISH!
I understand the need to keep a language within a family, I really do. But one thing that I have been noticing is that we have allowed this making this country accepting of all thing to go way to far! We have tests in two languages, we have shampoo bottles in two languages and god knows if I can go anywhere in Miami without having someone speak to me in Spanish before English. Forget the fact that I think these things make people lazy and it is unsafe for people to live in a country when they do not speak the language of the lawmakers.
But now they have ads on ENGLISH speaking networks that are in Spanish!ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? no really are you? That is not right! I am sorry but I refuse to have anything that I do not understand on English networks, and yes I will say it, it does make me uncomfortable. At the risk of sounding like a non-white red neck, I thought this was America!
I do not want anything that is not English on my TV or on my Ads simply because I see it as an insult. What because my people did not come to this country in massive droves I cannot go anywhere I want and expect people to speak Farsi to me? My family went through all the motions to come into this country, and coming from Iran int he 1980s to America was not easy, yet we did it. And it was fine because we followed the rules and waited the time needed before we came. I am insulted when I see people who think that they can by pass the rules. I followed them and no one gave me any special treatment when I wanted my grandmother to stay longer in this country, but she left when her visa was over and I do not understand how if we were Hispanic we would have a whole group of people fighting for her rights.
Having ads in Spanish is probably the biggest slap in the face to all of us who came to this country from a non- Spanish speaking country. We all know that there is no way we could get an ad in Japaneses put on a network, nor could we get one in Creole placed in South Florida, even though there is a big Haitian population. These things would be rejected right away, yet one in Spanish is okay why?
I am okay with all Spanish networks and magazines in my area. I am okay with being spoke to in Spanish when I go out, even though I think I should be spoken to in English, since this is America. But what I will never be okay with is having a slap in the face by people who want to be expempt from the adaptation that every other immigrant in this country had to go through.

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