Thread: Летс ми спик фром май харррт

Originally Posted by Eric C.

It has a significant drawback - all the speakers are concentrated in just one state.

Oh, they'll spread out, just wait. The Chinese workers will soon be demanding higher pay and the 'middle class' will appear. This will open even more business opportunities and they'll start expanding.

If all states pass a law on immigration like the one in Arizona, I hope that will never happen.

It's not just immigration. It's too late, btw. There are enough Spanish speaking people who are already citizens of USA. Taking that 'critical mass' into view, I doubt WASPs would be able to assimilate all of them.

Originally Posted by Ramil

Oh, they'll spread out, just wait. The Chinese workers will soon be demanding higher pay and the 'middle class' will appear. This will open even more business opportunities and they'll start expanding.



It's not just immigration. It's too late, btw. There are enough Spanish speaking people who are already citizens of USA. Taking that 'critical mass' into view, I doubt WASPs would be able to assimilate all of them.

The reason it will never happen is not because the Spanish-speaking won't come here or aren't already here. The reason it won't happen is the same reason that we don't currently speak Dutch or Irish. Part of a group's desire to maintain their original language IN PRIMACY when establishing roots in a second country is a feeling of division WITH that country. When that subsides, as it did for Dutch, Germans, French, Italians, Irish, Scottish, and then countless others who came here.. at least, MY bet is that English will be spoken by most of them, and will remain in primacy in this country.

Indian native languages never became the primary language of England. French never became the primary language of Canada. Yiddish didn't become the primary language of Germany, though in that last bit I think I've chosen a poor example.. Anyway, it's just my opinion, and my wager also.