Having had the television on all weekend, I noticed that many commercials are now all in Spanish. I am watching basic cable here, not the Spanish speaking channels. From the images on the commercials I can understand what product they are advertising, but their presence as interruptions for all English programming is quite alarming.
I love how everyone is expected to learn spanish these days. I'm in Texas where if you don't speak spanish, you are learning to speak spanish, or your screwed.
About the importance of Spanish to the USA and the rise of Chinese in schools.
The first three paragraphs are meant to be informational.
Cuando Ud. me conoce, yo parezco comó una güerita. Vivo en una población que tiene muchos güeros. Mis padres ganan suficiente baro, y nosotros vivimos una vida buena. Yo soy muy baja, con pelo rubio y ojos verdes, e yo parezco comó mi mamá. Sí, yo soy la güerita normal.
Pero yo soy chicana.
There seem to be two major schools of thought regarding the official appointment of Spanish as an official language of the United States. The first supports such action, citing a large Hispanic-American population. The second opposes it, stating that English should be the only official language of the United States.
I am a student at what is considered (by us at least) to be one of the best prep schools in the state. We have the third highest average SAT score in the state of Massachusetts and typically send anywhere from four to six students of our graduating class of 60 to Harvard.
