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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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"No Hablo Espanol"
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Again, someone is speaking to me in Spanish. Staring at her face, I repeat
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"What?" hoping she will either realize I don't understand Spanish and try
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to speak in English, or just give up. After three or four sentences, she
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asks me "No Espanol?" and as usual, I say "No," while shouting "YOU LEARN
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HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH YOU LAZY BITCH!" in my head.
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I am not saying that English is superior to any other language, and I
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don't believe in "Do as the Romans do." Note that I love Latin American
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food, and some people ARE fully bilingual. However, I believe that one
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needs to have knowledge of basic English if they live in the United
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States. After all, this country consists of various ethnic groups, and we
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cannot communicate with each other without a "standard" language.
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Somehow, many of the Hispanic immigrants in Miami do not even try to learn
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English. They often make excuses that they don't have money to go to
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school, they don't have time, they are too old to learn, and so on. Then,
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I may ask how I learned some Spanish phrases without taking any classes.
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TV or radio programs should be sufficient if one is really willing to
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learn. There are free English courses offered on weekends, which my
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parents have taken, if one wants to improve his/her conversation skills.
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Believe it or not, my college even provides Spanish-speakers special
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"bilingual" programs. Some core courses are taught both in English and
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Spanish. Then, I ask myself, why there is no classes taught in Japanese.
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This upsets me since I suffered so much learning English when I came to
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this country four years ago. If Spanish-speakers can pass the class
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easily, then all the other International students should be treated the
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same way (though I am glad I didn't have such an option since I could
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learn English so much faster).
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They do not learn English simply because the majority of the society (at
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least in Miami) speak Spanish. Provided that the local governments are run
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by Spanish-speakers (mostly Cuban-Americans), they often act as though
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their culture is the best, and that everyone else should follow their
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rules. They seem to forget that it all started to conserve their
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ethnicity, not to dominate the society. They should be criticized as well
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as Americans who know nothing but English (hey, it should be so much
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easier for you to learn Spanish than for me to learn English!).
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So I might start learning Spanish if they, at least, TRY to speak English
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to me, without making a stupid assumption that I am a Japanese-Peruvian
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who understands Spanish. Maybe I should talk back to them in Japanese next
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time. Or perhaps I should move out of Miami as soon as I finish my school.
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But I'm kind of attached to the taste of Cafe con Leche. Well, you never
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know, I might miss the sound of "Spanglish" if I leave here.
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June 4, 1997
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Psycho
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