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Old 08-01-2008 | 06:06 PM
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America is becoming so open-minded that its brains are falling out.
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Old 08-01-2008 | 10:02 PM
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Belgium and Switzerland have multiple official languages. As an American you really do not have much to complain about when there is no official national language. With the increase of spanish speakers it is going to get worse. In this case I would assume that when these union members were hired there was a set list of requirements and if it did not list spanish speakers then they have a real good case. I am not standing up for this policy, but unless they vote on an official language then you are going to run into these problems. People are outraged when they hear about cases like this but really there is 30-40 spanish language channels on cable in my area, there is the option to press 2 to get a spanish speaker on most large companies phone lines, and there is so many spanish speakers in this country that the incentive to learn English for spanish speakers is not there in the same capacity as if you were a Russian, German, Chinese, etc..... People are basically complaining about something that is not the law of the country. So if things like this outrage you then you better contact your politicians and get the official language as English, until then your argument does not hold that much weight. Oregon is one of the few states which has not adapted English as the official state language.

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Old 08-02-2008 | 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by ryan1234
America is becoming so open-minded that its brains are falling out.
The only problem with this is you actually need brains to begin with for this to be the case
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Old 08-02-2008 | 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by dannolars
The only problem with this is you actually need brains to begin with for this to be the case
We had brains back when America was an economic superpower.
Originally Posted by Shamrock23
Oregon is one of the few states which has not adapted English as the official state language.
Ironically, California defines English as the official language, yet our elected officials here ignore that statute completely.
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Old 08-02-2008 | 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by POPA
Absolutely hilarious, given the horribly incorrect punctuation in the thread title.
LOL....OMG I 4got I was in grammar class. Sry typn online turns ppl in2 a lzy typr!

POS, g2g.....TTYL!

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