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originally posted by: Night Star
a reply to: FissionSurplus
This is exactly why I left California after 40 years. I was having a very difficult time finding employment in social services, schools or hospitals because I wasn't bilingual. They couldn't say that it was "required" but they would say "bilingual preferred". One lady got pissy and told me that speaking Spanish was a requirement so if I didn't speak it, forget the job.
I once asked a company why they required employees to speak Spanish. Know what I was told? They said it was because most of their employees spoke it. It had nothing to do with the actual job. I told them that legal immigrants learned English and that if they had so many people just speaking Spanish that it sent up a red flag that they were probably illegals.
At one time it was unheard of for companies to require an American citizen to speak a foreign language in their own Country. Now you see more and more jobs requiring it. This is not right! Can you imagine going to another Country and companies requiring its own citizens to speak YOUR language? Can you? OMG! How many of our citizens are losing a job opportunity because of this? They have families to feed. They live here and are citizens and are losing an opportunity to provide for their families because some people decided to waltz over the border or overstay a visa. How horrible is that?
You do know that many countries around the world teach English as a second language in grade school correct?
originally posted by: Night Star
a reply to: Krazysh0t
You do know that many countries around the world teach English as a second language in grade school correct?
Yes but as far as I am aware, they do NOT make their own citizens speak a foreign language in order to get a job that has nothing to do with needing to speak a foreign language.
No citizen of any Country should be forced to speak a foreign language in their own Country in order to get hired for a job that has nothing to do with International business dealings or being an interpreter. No foreigner coming to live illegally into someone else's Country should be catered to and rewarded.
You think business care whether someone is an illegal or a foreigner that does not speak a lick of english?
BREAKING NEWS: They don't.
The most important thing for a business are those green pieces of paper in your pocket.
I spent my entire K-12 education in the LAUSD's public school system, and decades working and competing with illegal labor in both Los Angeles and San Diego county. It's a fact, illegal immigration in Southern California has reached a critical mass.
originally posted by: seasoul
a reply to: LABTECH767
As human beings, every single one of us is a "native."
The earth belongs to no man, each is "indigenous" and responsible for acting as a caretaker.
There are only two paths that separate us, the path of to take and serve one's self or the path of to give and serve one's fellow man.
sad to say, that's how it works. not to long ago i could walk onto any job site and run heavy equipment for minimum 20 bucks an hour, even up to 30+.
now i'm offered 9 or so, i gave up even trying, i've had employers literally say things like, 'but that' s what we pay the migrants/illegals.'
Another way is to see the belief of the native people's of the plain's before the white man came, the concept of owning land was not alien to the america's but among them they believed rather the earth owned them than they owned the earth for it was before them, would be long after they were gone and long after there children were gone.
originally posted by: rubbertramp
a reply to: Night Star
i've been out of it for years.i assimilated, i guess you could say, been self employed ever since.
originally posted by: Cambot
How do we begin to define "foreign language" in a country with no official language? Serious question.