Re: English-Only Policy At Doughnut Shop Draws Fire

From: Lets Roll (letsroll_at_meet-me-in-hell.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:21:24 -0600

"Susan Cohen" <flabbyass@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111374575.182450.5570@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Lets Roll wrote:
>> "Michael Baldwin Bruce" <mbbruce@mighty.co.za> wrote in message
>> news:1111307126.744161.300210@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> > editor@netpath.net wrote:
>> >> Michael wrote:
>> >> >Whatever happened to the "Si Habla Espanol" signs?
>> >>
>> >> BOYCOTT any place advertising it or talking Spanish to
> customers -
>> >> and you can force English-only a lot faster than by pushing for a
>> > law!
>> >
>> > Why?
>>
>>
>> Why not? Do you enjoy struggling to communicate with people who only
> want
>> to get into your wallet for everything they can get?
>
> Like you can't point to a picture.
>

I could. But I'm not so eager for any business to make a profit off me that
I will do their job for them.
If they want my money they are going to have to work for it, starting with
an attitude of good customer service by making it easy for me to communicate
with their employees. If I can't easily communicate with their employees in
the language of my choice, I assume they are not all that interested in
pocketing my money and gladly take it elsewhere.

>> >> 75% of U.S. residents are native-born European-Americans.
>> >
>> > European? You mean like Spain?
>> >
>>
>> Do you have something against speaking English in America?
>
> You do know it nearly became German, don't you?
>

But it didn't.

>> >> About 12% more are black.
>> >
>> > Kunta Kinte!
>> >
>>
>> Ebonics anyone?
>
> You've never read Roots?
>

What does it have to do with the price of tea in China?

>> >> If any significant percentage of those 87% of
>> >> Americans started boycotting every place advertising "Se Hablo
>> >> Espanol," you'd see stores, restaurants, car dealers, etc. go
>> >> English-only real fast.
>> >
>> > Funny how you don't see people whining about Asian shops and
>> > restaurants
>> > that have all those signs in gookspeak.
>>
>> There are a couple of reasons for that.
>> #1. They are not nearly as prevalent as demonstrated by the
> telephone quiz
>> of "Push 1 for English - Push 2 for Spanish".
>> #2 Asia does not share a 2,000 mile border with our English
> speaking
>> nation. That makes it more difficult for them to maintain ties with
> their
>> native culture and provides them with more incentive to learn to
> speak
>> English, unlike the unassimilating Hispanics who demand special
>> consideration for their inability and refusal to learn to speak
> English.
>
> So how do the ones who can't speak English manage when they
> go somewhere where there are no spics to help them?
>

I have no idea and it is not my problem. I am not the one who moved to a
foreign country without learning any of the language.

>> > Personally, I hate walking into
>> > Jap restaurants to be greeted by the waitress with an
> "irashaimase!".
>> > Like they think I speak Japanese or something.
>> >
>> > I always feel like replying "Ore no chimpoku wa shakuhatchi
> shitekure!".
>> >
>>
>> Personally, I am sick and tired of answering my phone or being
> confronted by
>> Hispanics who not only expect me to speak Spanish, but seem to demand
> that I
>> do so in order to accommodate their lack of language skills. They
> soon find
>> out I speak fairly fluent Spanish, enough to communicate to them that
> if
>> they cannot conduct their business in English they will get no help
> from me.
>
> So why do they ring you? And have you tried speaking in another
> language to annoy them?
>
> Susan
>

Generally, they are calling about employment opportunities. And no, I don't
waste time speaking another language just to annoy them. They get annoyed
enough when I tell them I am not going to assist them unless they speak
English and promptly hang up on them. Sometimes I get a wrong number at my
home phone. I'm not so kind to them.

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