12-14-2005, 03:07 PM
i think that somewhere along the way, people have associated "the greatest country on earth" with the"greatest language on earth"
it's really hard for me to argue this point because i really have no idea why people are angry at people who speak a different language. english is a different language from chinese. it's a different language from french. there are people who refuse to learn and i support your arguement that they should try to learn but we cant force them. you cant teach an old dog new tricks and the same goes for people. most of them are set in their ways and reasonably comfortable with their lifestyle so they dont see a reason to learn english. the most they hear is probably television and personally, i wouldnt go learn a whole new language just to understand some spanish soap operas. give them a break. not to be insensitive but in a few decades they'll all be dead anyway and all of you people who only speak english will be out of a job because the world is changing and multilingual people are gaining an advantage with such trends as outsourcing and multinational corporations
it's really hard for me to argue this point because i really have no idea why people are angry at people who speak a different language. english is a different language from chinese. it's a different language from french. there are people who refuse to learn and i support your arguement that they should try to learn but we cant force them. you cant teach an old dog new tricks and the same goes for people. most of them are set in their ways and reasonably comfortable with their lifestyle so they dont see a reason to learn english. the most they hear is probably television and personally, i wouldnt go learn a whole new language just to understand some spanish soap operas. give them a break. not to be insensitive but in a few decades they'll all be dead anyway and all of you people who only speak english will be out of a job because the world is changing and multilingual people are gaining an advantage with such trends as outsourcing and multinational corporations