[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
Here is an argumentative research paper on the case for the recognition and acceptance of Spanish in the United States. Tell me what you think. I thought it was quite interesting, long, but very interesting.
Some time ago, foreign nationals illegally crossed the border into the sovereign territory of another nation. They flooded into territory that was not theirs and took advantage of the arable lands, speaking a foreign language and practicing an oft antagonistic religion. The government of this sovereign nation offered these would-be invaders amnesty on the condition that they learned the language of the nation, gave up activities considered illegal and did not invite anyone else to come without permission. In order to deal with this influx, the government instituted a visa process that would limit the number of aliens coming in and filter them out, so only the best and most suitable would be permitted. Some time passed, illegal immigration did not cease, the guests did not learn the national language, they became increasingly antagonistic to the local population, and maintained cultural practices entirely abhorrent to the national one. These illegal immigrants eventually threw a violent insurrection, seceding from the nation, subjugating the traditional populace, robbing them of their fertile lands and instituting the immoral practice of slavery that they had been secretly maintaining for years. This account does not describe illegal immigration to the United States, but rather, the violent illegal immigration to Mexico by Anglo-Americans and the subsequent formation of the Republic of Texas that followed. This account gives us a point of moral comparison for those who view the position of the Spanish language in the United States in the United States as an invasion. The Spanish language in the United States is not an invasive force, but rather a well-established language of the subjugated people of this country. Hispanic people have the right to communicate in their native tongue and must be permitted to exercise it freely in education, business and government; taking full advantage of the Bill of Rights and ancestral treaties with the US government.
Read the rest at…
http://celerasolves.com/veritaz/[/quote]
I admittedly don’t know a great deal about the common history of Mexico and USA, just what goes on now.
If the mexicans could have taken USA back then, there is a good chance they would have. They are doing it now and the only reason for that is the passivity and kindness of american citizens, who accept them for no mutual gain.
They did not create spanish either; they got it from the spanish. Mexicans, or mestizos were created by the spanish by banging the indians. Why do they want to use the language of a former colonizer? Is it because they were literally created by their colonizers, as an ethnic group?
Just as with the native americans and blacks, european-americans have given mestizos untold prosperity that they could not have reached on their own and they know how to appeal to white pity. Black slavery led to their descendants living lives of radically improved quality under white guidance, as happened with ‘native’ americans (europeans were actually the first according to recent research) as well, who have their own special rights and privileges. Europeans just made better use of the land.
