It's pretty funny, if you visit Mexico you must speak Spanish because they don't know English.
HOWEVER, if they come to the US, you also better learn Spanish because they still won't know English because we want them to keep retain their "culture" right? Wouldn't want to understand your neighbors at the cost of their "culture"
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@nihilvt i know a decent amount of spanish, enough to like barely communicate basic ideas. i refuse to speak it to people who can't even meet me halfway with english. i don't even say "no entiendo" or "no hablo espanol" i just shake my head and shrug. i see people all the time who don't even understand me when i say "hello."
even if i were to go on a vacation to a country, i would learn enough to know how their currency works, basic greetings, how to order things from restaurants, etc. it is common courtesy and respectful to do so. these people have no respect, so i refuse to respect them.
@beardalaxy@gameliberty.club at very least have a translator ready lol learning a language is hard but they move here en masse and can't even whip out Duolingo while they hide in the box truck?
America shouldn't be a dual language country, actually Mexican culture is great for Southern US but not if I can't order some of those fresh pressed tortillas in English
@nihilvt there's a mexican restaurant close to me that's absurdly good, but it is impossible to order there because their english is so broken that i can't understand what they're saying, especially amidst the noise and commotion. i made my old roommate order for me because he somehow had no problem understanding lol.
@beardalaxy@gameliberty.club my best friend is Mexican, so she is basically my escort to any of the Spanish areas and just translates whatever I need to know
@nihilvt oh that's nice. funny enough the mexican friends i've had over the years actually have known less spanish than i do xD only one of them was fluent and that came in handy when there were illegals doing odd jobs at the place we worked xD
@nihilvt this is exclusively a problem with spanish speakers, by the way. i have seen immigrants from tons of other places and they all seem to either genuinely be trying to learn english or they already know it well enough and just have a very thick accent so it's kind of hard to tell what they're saying. i guess that's probably because it's harder to come here illegally if you're not from mexico. russians, ukrainians, chinese, taiwanese, vietnamese, never have a problem with any of them. i sometimes have a harder time understanding south african people lmao.