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Elite Mentor
Here's my big pet peeve, and I don't really know wether it's tied into illegal immigration or just shitty immigration laws period...
I believe if you're going to reside in a new country that speaks a new language, you should be 100% required to read, write and speak the language. I know there is a literacy test when attempting to become naturalized, but either it needs a higher quality of standards placed upon it, or simply we have a bigger illegal probelm than we thought, to the point that businesses are doing more to capitalize on the issue than just hiring the illegals, but targeting them with ad campaigns to make the businesses look like their best friends and that the fact they are indeed illegal or simply illiterate in English is of no real issue.
I live in an area where there's a big influx of Mexican or Latin or whatever the fuck immigrants (I don't stop and ask them exactly where they're from) because unfortunately in this case, my area has both a hefty amount of low income housing projects and it's got quick and easy access to Newark NJ, Philly, and NYC. This quick access means the drug trafficking into this area which has been free of the inner citty ghetto like drug problems up until just a few years prior, is now ripe for the picking by the ghetto trash coming from those areas. We're now full of second rate losers who couldn't even make it on the streets in their hometown shitholes, so it's like they decide to pack up and run off before someone kills them and where better to call home than here?
So anyways, a couple months ago I was driving through a nearby city and on the side of a bank they had this huge banner in Spanish. Not even an english translation in parentheses somewhere to throw us natives a bone. I felt like I was an unwanted stranger who wasn't allowed or good enough to read some huge sign set out for the general public to see in his hometown.
So this hit me as a big sign of the times and also a slap in the face. Why should these immigrants be let into the U.S legally first off if they can't truly read and write English, therefore effectively communicate properly with the natural populace? I'd love to see how stringent this lliteracy test is for passing into the USA.
Now if indeed this test is a very strict one, and the immigrants should in theory have no issue reading and comprehending much in the English language after passing it, then why would a company make a banner targeted directly to immigrants in their native tongue? We have a huge Italian and Polish population here also yet never ever have I seen anything printed publicly in my life in even the most ethnically dense areas around here that was printed up in just Italian or Polish. But businesses seem fine with doing just that for the Mexicans.
So now if the legal immigrants should have no issues with English literacy, and therefore there would be no reason to publicly display an ad based in their native tongue, then the other reason for doing so would be to cater to those that come here illegally and have no clue what is going on around them because they can't understand a lick of English. So to get these people's business easily, it makes sense to target them with ads from their native tongue.
It obvously makes fiscal sense but these idiots running these businesses must have no clue that they're just adding to the problem. Not only are they spreading a false message of it being OK to be an ignorant illiterate immigrant because there will always be businesses there to pick up their slack, but they also spit on the Americans who have lived here their whole lives and helped their business come to be what it is to begin with by completely shutting us out from the message they're trying to convey to a selective public and making us feel like complete fools. No one should ever have to go through life in their home town being blitzed with messages in a foreign language; ones designed to cater to criminals ruining our economy.
I believe if you're going to reside in a new country that speaks a new language, you should be 100% required to read, write and speak the language. I know there is a literacy test when attempting to become naturalized, but either it needs a higher quality of standards placed upon it, or simply we have a bigger illegal probelm than we thought, to the point that businesses are doing more to capitalize on the issue than just hiring the illegals, but targeting them with ad campaigns to make the businesses look like their best friends and that the fact they are indeed illegal or simply illiterate in English is of no real issue.
I live in an area where there's a big influx of Mexican or Latin or whatever the fuck immigrants (I don't stop and ask them exactly where they're from) because unfortunately in this case, my area has both a hefty amount of low income housing projects and it's got quick and easy access to Newark NJ, Philly, and NYC. This quick access means the drug trafficking into this area which has been free of the inner citty ghetto like drug problems up until just a few years prior, is now ripe for the picking by the ghetto trash coming from those areas. We're now full of second rate losers who couldn't even make it on the streets in their hometown shitholes, so it's like they decide to pack up and run off before someone kills them and where better to call home than here?
So anyways, a couple months ago I was driving through a nearby city and on the side of a bank they had this huge banner in Spanish. Not even an english translation in parentheses somewhere to throw us natives a bone. I felt like I was an unwanted stranger who wasn't allowed or good enough to read some huge sign set out for the general public to see in his hometown.
So this hit me as a big sign of the times and also a slap in the face. Why should these immigrants be let into the U.S legally first off if they can't truly read and write English, therefore effectively communicate properly with the natural populace? I'd love to see how stringent this lliteracy test is for passing into the USA.
Now if indeed this test is a very strict one, and the immigrants should in theory have no issue reading and comprehending much in the English language after passing it, then why would a company make a banner targeted directly to immigrants in their native tongue? We have a huge Italian and Polish population here also yet never ever have I seen anything printed publicly in my life in even the most ethnically dense areas around here that was printed up in just Italian or Polish. But businesses seem fine with doing just that for the Mexicans.
So now if the legal immigrants should have no issues with English literacy, and therefore there would be no reason to publicly display an ad based in their native tongue, then the other reason for doing so would be to cater to those that come here illegally and have no clue what is going on around them because they can't understand a lick of English. So to get these people's business easily, it makes sense to target them with ads from their native tongue.
It obvously makes fiscal sense but these idiots running these businesses must have no clue that they're just adding to the problem. Not only are they spreading a false message of it being OK to be an ignorant illiterate immigrant because there will always be businesses there to pick up their slack, but they also spit on the Americans who have lived here their whole lives and helped their business come to be what it is to begin with by completely shutting us out from the message they're trying to convey to a selective public and making us feel like complete fools. No one should ever have to go through life in their home town being blitzed with messages in a foreign language; ones designed to cater to criminals ruining our economy.
