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Related: About this forum"Why Can't The English Learn To Speak?" (re: demanding immigrants be fluent before they arrive)
"there are places where english completely disappears--why, in america, they haven't used it for years"
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"Why Can't The English Learn To Speak?" (re: demanding immigrants be fluent before they arrive) (Original Post)
niyad
Aug 2017
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sailfla
(239 posts)1. These foriegners got to learn to speak murican first
sandensea
(21,688 posts)2. When I've helped with past Censuses, it always amuses me how many claim to be of "American" descent
It's always the right-wing types, and it's obvious they have no idea what that means.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)3. Well...At least outwardly you will all look like an AMERICAN...
to Americans, I look like I am Fresh off the boat, and often treated that way, ..
'' oh? Who taught you English? You speak it so well!"
...uh.. I was born here.
sandensea
(21,688 posts)4. They must be deaf AND blind. So much stupidity in this world.
I can't claim to have always made the smart call in life; but I know this: of all the ways they divide us to get their way with us, racism is chief among them.
Really cute videos, btw. We laugh; but there are a lot of people like that (some mean well, others don't).
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)5. Not my favorite number in that movie, but a great number & greatest movie!
Sadly, they're all dead, now. Time marches on, but these beautiful films are preserved forever.