Re: Can you make a living working for Disney?
Let's face it. You won't get hired anywhere in France, or DLP in particular, if you are not french-fluent. Period.
..and who is to be blamed for that? Certainly there is nowhere in the USA constitution that english is the "official" languge of our country. Not until that little mishap gets fixed, it will be open season for the eradication of english as a spoken language in this country. Similarly, the other side of the coin is how smug Americans can be when they travel abroad, expecting every one to cater to them in English when in fact, many tourists who come to this country do not get the same treatment by the Americans expecting them to be english fluent. Double standard? I think so.
But I do agree with you. I came to the USA 25 yrs ago and immediately immersed myself inthe english language and sores me to death that many other fellow latinos have this sense of entitlement in regards to spanish in our parts of town here in Orlando and the rest of FL. If I wanted to continue speaking and breathing spanish language and culture day in and day out in my life, I would have stayed in Latin America!
Originally posted by ti2gr
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I used to work for a major retailer and was asked 20-30 times a day if I spoke spanish. I answered one guest no, in plain English he said "Why Not?". My answer was simply, it's not the language of my country, nor my heritage and if I was to learn a second language, it would be that of my heritage therefore it would be German or Swedish.
But I do agree with you. I came to the USA 25 yrs ago and immediately immersed myself inthe english language and sores me to death that many other fellow latinos have this sense of entitlement in regards to spanish in our parts of town here in Orlando and the rest of FL. If I wanted to continue speaking and breathing spanish language and culture day in and day out in my life, I would have stayed in Latin America!
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