Reply #36: The quandry.. [View All]

[XOKCowboy]

I wonder if we are creating two tiers of Spanish speaking immigrants: those who want to ascend to the business world where they must learn to speak English and those who wish to stay at the level of lesser level of English, where they only have to interact with other Spanish speakers and do not feel the need to learn English.

I wonder if that might be the price they have to pay for success in America. Of course success is relative. Some measure success as being able to make a living wage to support their families along with having an extensive social structure of people with similar backgrounds. Does this make them bad people. Not in my opinion. I know a lot of Americans (remember I grew up in Oklahoma) who hold the very same values when you think about it. The irony is that it's a lot of these same Americans are the strongest proponents of English Only and The Fence.