Downtown Disney Shooting

Rudeney wrote:
> rick++ wrote:
>> Most recreation in southern California
>> has become very Spanish, especially the
>> free stuff, because the majority of the population
>> is Spanish now. One just lives with it. I wouldnt be
>> surprised if they alternative the afternoon and
>> evening parade in different languages or
>> have special language zones along the
>> route. For safety purposes they need more
>> Spanish signage in the parks.
>
> I know some people will find this to be a very unpopular thing to say,
> but I am totally against any person, company, or government spending
> money on multi-lingual signs just because there are immigrants (legal or
> otherwise) who refuse to learn the local language. When I travel to a
> foreign country, even just for a brief vacation, I at least try to learn
> enough of the local language to get around safely and I carry a
> translation dictionary for. I believe it's totally ridiculous to for a
> person to actually relocate to another country and be expected to learn
> the local language. In fact, one good way to learn a foreign language
> is to just be immersed in it. If you have no choice, you *will* learn it.
>
> Having said that, I have no problems with people actually speaking a
> foreign language among themselves. It does not bother me at all. In
> fact, I am more apt to listen to see if I can determine the language and
> understand any of it. I also have no problems with a large
> international vacation destination like DL and WDW offering guide maps
> and other literature in multiple language, but to have them put up
> dual-language signs just to accommodate Spanish-speaking immigrants that
> don't care to learn English, well, that's just perpetuating the problem.
>
I'm the same way. So far we've been to three European countries: Italy,
Germany and Austria. (Unless you count a layover in Heathrow but
actually I think that's on another planet.) I alway try to learn enough
of the local language to ask directions, order dinner, buy something
-that type of stuff. Everyone says but they: "But they all speak English
over there". NO, they don't and not all those that do are as conversant
in it as you'd like. In Italy Dove è la toletta came in handy more than
once.

As to multilingual signs, at airports and such ilk certainly. But NOT at
the local home improvement store. This isn't the forum for a discussion
on illegal immigrants and their effect on certain aspects of our
economy. As I said signs in travel locations are fine but not in run of
the mill stores. LEARN THE LANGUAGE!! In Germany the only English signs
I saw were in tourist spots not in the local wine