Group takes offense to Spanish billboards

Two signs in Spanish that advertise banking services to the community's sizable Latino population are being derided by a group that claims the signs pander to illegal immigrants.

[Speak It Or Leave]

I agree that no billboards, advertisements, documents, or any other form of communications should be in any language other than English in America. We cater to the laziness of all foreign nationalities by bending our system to translate to them. If we were to travel to Vietnam, Mexico, Iran, or any other land, the signs, legal documents, and communications as a whole are done in the native language of that country/region. What makes them so special that we have to create unnecessary expenses for our corporations, citizens, and government to cater to their lack of learning English? They remain lazy, speaking their native language, while the rest of us Americans (don't care what color you are) who do speak English continue to suffer!!! Enough is enough. You want to live here, then learn to communicate. No more of this "Me No Speaky English" nonsense, and trust me, working in the financial services industry for better than 12 years has allowed me to see and hear it all. It's garbage top to bottom. Speak it or get out!

[just my 2 cents]

"It's important that all our customers understand our company communications - including our advertising - which is why you'll discover we advertise in multiple languages,"
multiple languages huh? that's funny I did not see any languages other than spanish. pander pander pander to those who refuse to assimilate and don't belong here in the first place.

[carlos]

what. que ignorantes they must go to cancun mexico and they will see all the billboards in english and not in spanish.and many other citys is all about $$$$$$$.

[just my 2 cents]

carlos wrote:

what. que ignorantes they must go to cancun mexico and they will see all the billboards in english and not in spanish.and many other citys is all about $$$$$$$.

why would I step foot in that cesspool of a country?

[Rico from East Los]

Speak It Or Leave wrote:

I agree that no billboards, advertisements, documents, or any other form of communications should be in any language other than English in America. We cater to the laziness of all foreign nationalities by bending our system to translate to them. If we were to travel to Vietnam, Mexico, Iran, or any other land, the signs, legal documents, and communications as a whole are done in the native language of that country/region. What makes them so special that we have to create unnecessary expenses for our corporations, citizens, and government to cater to their lack of learning English? They remain lazy, speaking their native language, while the rest of us Americans (don't care what color you are) who do speak English continue to suffer!!! Enough is enough. You want to live here, then learn to communicate. No more of this "Me No Speaky English" nonsense, and trust me, working in the financial services industry for better than 12 years has allowed me to see and hear it all. It's garbage top to bottom. Speak it or get out!

You like other ultra conservatives (possibly nut cases) always forget that English is only the de facto language of the United States.

If you cannot understand the language in question, I recommend you broaden you linguistic ability.

Spanish isn't an illegal immigrant language no matter how hard you try to make it.

Adios Amigo!!!

[yassirblos]

carlos wrote:

what. que ignorantes they must go to cancun mexico and they will see all the billboards in english and not in spanish.and many other citys is all about $$$$$$$.

....uh Carlos,those instances are about tourists not a permanent mexican invasion force.

[just my 2 cents]

if what you say is true then why are all new citizens required to speak English? language is what unites us and allows us to communicate. what if everyone decided to just speak their native language and refused to learn English like the Mexicans? we would not be able to function as a society. like I said it is nothing more than pandering to one group of people who refuse to get with the program.

[Rose]

Speak It Or Leave wrote:

I agree that no billboards, advertisements, documents, or any other form of communications should be in any language other than English in America.

Can't have any of that freedom of speech here in America!

What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks only one?
American.

[Rico from East Los]

yassirblos wrote:

<quoted text>....uh Carlos,those instances are about tourists not a permanent mexican invasion force.

No hablamos Espanol? No bueno!

[Stephen]

This is a difference of values. Pro amnesty groups like to say diversity is a great thing for our country. In reality, assimilation is what this country was built on. "E Pluribus Unum, From Many One", is a uniquely American trait. We are the melting pot of the world. We have immigrants from all over the world and they assimilate and become as American as anyone else. The pro amnesty groups advocate diversity, which is NOT an American value. Those that immigrate to this country and refuse to assimilate are hurting themselves and our country. They don't want to become Americans and will never identify themselves as such. Their loyalties will always be with their country of origin. Sorry, but this is totally unacceptable and must be outright rejected. If you want to become an American, welcome. Otherwise, GO HOME!

[Auto Mechanic]

We all better speak up rather that let these Liberals kill our country.

[American 1776]

Does the TOWER of BABEL mean any thing to anyone. We are becoming Babel, and unfortunately we'll end the same way. No country can survive if they don't have a national language that Everyone speaks..

[Mike]

English only !! Go back home if you don't like it !!!!

[Bonnie]

Speak It Or Leave wrote:

I agree that no billboards, advertisements, documents, or any other form of communications should be in any language other than English in America. We cater to the laziness of all foreign nationalities by bending our system to translate to them. If we were to travel to Vietnam, Mexico, Iran, or any other land, the signs, legal documents, and communications as a whole are done in the native language of that country/region. What makes them so special that we have to create unnecessary expenses for our corporations, citizens, and government to cater to their lack of learning English? They remain lazy, speaking their native language, while the rest of us Americans (don't care what color you are) who do speak English continue to suffer!!! Enough is enough. You want to live here, then learn to communicate. No more of this "Me No Speaky English" nonsense, and trust me, working in the financial services industry for better than 12 years has allowed me to see and hear it all. It's garbage top to bottom. Speak it or get out!

Travel to these countries? If we jumped their borders we would be shot!

[Rico from East Los]

American 1776 wrote:

Does the TOWER of BABEL mean any thing to anyone. We are becoming Babel, and unfortunately we'll end the same way. No country can survive if they don't have a national language that Everyone speaks..

81% of the U.S. population aged five years and older fluently speaks english. Please go and find another lame excuse why English should be the only language in the United States.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/08statab/...

[Rico from East Los]

Mike wrote:

English only !! Go back home if you don't like it !!!!

Most of the spanish speakers who can read that billboard are at home. Maybe it's time to learn a second language. Stimulate some of those dormant brain cells!!!

[Rico from East Los]

Stephen wrote:

This is a difference of values. Pro amnesty groups like to say diversity is a great thing for our country. In reality, assimilation is what this country was built on. "E Pluribus Unum, From Many One", is a uniquely American trait. We are the melting pot of the world. We have immigrants from all over the world and they assimilate and become as American as anyone else. The pro amnesty groups advocate diversity, which is NOT an American value. Those that immigrate to this country and refuse to assimilate are hurting themselves and our country. They don't want to become Americans and will never identify themselves as such. Their loyalties will always be with their country of origin. Sorry, but this is totally unacceptable and must be outright rejected. If you want to become an American, welcome. Otherwise, GO HOME!

“People who want this country to remain a white-dominated country have lost. They have completely and utterly lost the battle and they can never win it. If they were to seal the borders tomorrow, whites would still lose their majority in a matter of years, simply as a result of the difference in fertility rate.”

As a result, many people “feel that this is no longer the country that their Christian white forefathers built, that they have been robbed, that this isn’t the world they grew up in and that they are very, very frightened”—a feeling stoked and exploited by political and media
demagogues, who will loudly disclaim responsibility when that fear becomes violence.

The president is black, the secretary of state is a woman, the new Supreme Court justice is Hispanic, the nation is changing, becoming vastly more inclusive. If some see that as a
redemption of promise, the SPLC report reminds us that others regard it as anembodiment of threat. For the record, at least six of the plots it recounts were motivated by, or against, Obama. Take it as proof.“Culture war” is not a figure of speech.

http://www.buffalonews.com/248/story/800294.h... ?

[Rico from East Los]

Rose wrote:

<quoted text>
Can't have any of that freedom of speech here in America!
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks only one?
American.

They attack the Spanish speaker due to their own handicap of only speaking english.

It's very prejudice of them to act like that as the United States has no official language.

[skinnygenes]

Rose wrote:

<quoted text>
Can't have any of that freedom of speech here in America!
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks only one?
American.

Rose, many Americans speak a second language, does it have to be Spanish to qualify?

[Mike]

Hey rico Loser!!!! Do you have my stolen computer.