Quoted from Tommy

Why should Spanish be treated specially?

It's called assimilation you lazy bastards.

This country sort of got off on the wrong foot - forcing the native peoples to stop speaking their languages even beating them if they did, bullying people to all do things they wanted them to do they called it “assimilation”-

Quoted from Box A Rox

I love to watch these "English only" Americans when they vacation in Montreal!  

They speak English to a French speaking Canadian in his own country and get angry when he doesn't understand them.  

Absolute true story.
In the early eighties, I was touring with Edgar Winter.

One day, the stage manager and I, got stuck driving the truck, and were hoplessly lost in the outskirts of Quebec, but there was a guy in his front yard, so I asked for directions, but he only spoke French.

I, not mad at all just looked over and said "screw it Sparky, he doesn't speak English".

The guy yells "F*CK YOU! I DON"T COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND MAKE YOU SPEAK FRENCH!"

Fun to watch... When the Canadian doesn't understand... they speak LOUDER AND SLOWER!!!  As if that will help!

A friend of mine was working in a Florida restaurant as a waitress.  She had some customers that demanded her to speak in spanish to them.  She didnt know how to speak spanish and those people wanted to see the manager because they thought she shouldnt be working there if she couldnt talk to their customers.  And they were saying all of this in english!!  

if you want to survive....then do what you have to do and learn the local dialect....that would be called SURVIVAL......it's NOT the government's job
to make sure your menus are printed in your language or your electrical warning on the toaster is in 5 languages(if the company wants to do it then
go ahead, but I'm pretty sure they are following UN recommendations, and what know what a government recommendation turns into).....
be careful when the government doesn't encouraged native tongue....it's a way to divide and conquer, although it creates more unrest/stress between
groups and requires the government to 'step up police'......

just learn the lingo folks....no freakin' big deal....no one said you had to be a scholar....but if we cant get along and express understanding between
ourselves the government wins because we are too freakin' divided to pay attention or gather together......