Huh?! Isn’t that stupid?!

It's a joke heard very often especially in international circles. One goes on enumerating nationalities who speak multiple languages and then at the end: ____ speaks only one language. The right answer is American.

Perhaps true to outsiders (if they only meet stupid white trash) but in reality more than a couple hundred languages are spoken in the US.

Read Spanish en los Estados Unidos adds to immigrant heat.

Spanish is seen as a threat to American culture?

And then:

If Spanish continued to spread, he said, "bilingual candidates for president and appointed national offices could have an advantage over English-only speakers. "English speakers lacking fluency in Spanish are likely to be at a disadvantage in the competition for jobs, promotions and contracts."

He cited a 2003 survey that showed Spanish-only families in Miami averaged an annual income of $18,000, English-only $32,000, and bilingual families $50,376.

"For the first time in American history, increasing numbers of Americans will not be able to get the jobs or the pay they would otherwise get because they can speak to their countrymen only in English."

Wake up! Fluency in another language usually means better-paying jobs the world over! Hello!?!?!

And by the way, the Spanish were in North America way before there was a United States. Now, change that! 

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