I have to ask where you live. because to be honest, and no offense but you're talking out your ass on this. but here, I'll answer your non educated questions.
Illinois but I grew up in Atlanta and have lived in various parts of Florida as well as spending a short time in California.
I never said chevy shouldn't advertise to spanish speaking people. I said they shouldn't have to do it when they are advertising here in america. where the native language is english. go to spain or italy or columbia and see how many commercials are in english. And it's not just chevy. if you lived here, which you obviously don't from your comments, it's everything. wallgreens, banks, car makers, home depot, coffee shops, malls...I had to drive to 4 differnt hair cut places to find one that had people who could understand wtf I was even saying to them.
They don't have to do it, they choose to. Chevy is not forced to advertise in spanish any more than you are forced to watch the commercials. Do you really believe it likely that an illegal immigrant who cannot speak English is going to walk into a Chevy dealership and buy a brand new Tahoe? With those commercials Chevy is targeting hispanics who live here legally, speak the english language as well as you do, and make as much money as you and I.
Those hair salons are free to cater to hispanics. You don't like the fact that they don't have english speaking employees so you chose not to spend your money there. Where is the problem?
my nephew has to take and pass spanish to graduate high school. do you think they just suddenly one day said "oh. we should make EVERYONE learn spanish in case one day they decide to travel to spain." funny how other cultures like people from asian, germany, russia, italy are more than happy to learn english. yet here there are entire communities made up of people who can't make a simple sentence. stores with signs totally in spanish. street signs in english and spanish. the clenaing lady here in my building has been there 40 years and the other day couldn't even ask me where to plug in her vaccuum.
Is your nephew limited to spanish or is he able to choose german, italian, russian, japanese, french, or portugese like virtually every other high school across the nation? It's a requirement to learn a foreign language, not a requirement to learn spanish. If his particular school only offers spanish because they could only find spanish teachers to hire then it's no fault of the illegals or the other hispanics in the country.
Yeah, funny how all those people from other places you mentioned can speak english yet none of the hispanics living in America...oh wait a second, many of them indeed speak english. In fact, would you be able to show me any kind of data that indicates there is a larger percentage of non-english speaking hispanics than there are non-english speaking germans, japanese, italians, or french?
I don't "know" any because I have no desire to "know" them. but living down here in little havana (that's the real name)
With all due respect, that's your problem, not theirs. And who cares if it's called little havana; are you also annoyed because there's a "little italy" area of New York?
For the record the first European settlers in Florida were spaniards. In fact, what language do you think names like Florida, Miami, Orlando, Pensacola, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Bonita Springs, Riviera Beach, and Panama City come from (granted the last four are combinations of two languages) came from?
well here's something else to amaze you.
it was in the local news about a year ago a man from cuba who had been here for 40 years, give or take. He had never paid taxes (which I find hard to beleive but maybe they just meant SS taxes) and was now in his early 70s. he became a US citizen so he could start collecting SS benefits.
Which is a gross abuse of the system but no more or less heinous than an American citizen collecting welfare despite never having paid taxes himself.
It seems to me the US is very easy to get into so why do people do it illegally? maybe it's not as easy as it seems.
Certainly doesn't seem easy to me. Perhaps if the situation was looked at logically the problem could solve itself.
Why do people come here illegally instead of legally? The former is easier than the latter. Make it easier to get here legally than illegally and the only people that will be sneaking across the border will be the criminals that couldn't pass the background checks and the terrorists that we need to be keeping out.
