Spanish speakers earn a place in U.S. society
Tagged: children“Yet the most significant fact to keep in mind about people who speak Spanish in the United States is this: Such people are invariably performing useful labor. In fact, it isn’t too much of an exaggeration to say that the odds a person does the kind of work that simply has to get done in order to keep civilization afloat go up in direct proportion to the probability that this person speaks Spanish.
Those among us who build the buildings, and cook the food, and clean the bathrooms, and trim the trees, and care for the children – in short, the people who, in Orwell’s phrase, “make the wheels go round” – are increasingly the people who press “2” in order to hear their options in Spanish.”
Source: More information in English / Mas informacíon en Ingles
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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November 16th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration, Top Stories
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