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Speak English
Please excuse the blutness of my subject by I am too tired...I'm from South Florida which has a huge Hispanic population. Well I came home for the holidays and I it is almost the end of my break and I want to scream. Literally in practically every store I've went to or any place I've needed service at the workers have been speaking spanish in front of the customers, if the customers are Hispanic they speak spanish to them, if they're Black like me they speak little and when they speak English it ranges from being barely understandable to knowledgeable. I respect anyone who has pride in their culture BUT ON THE JOB you are there to work, we are in America a once English colony and when in Rome.. I could understand at the job if a customer came in who spoke poor English, then by all means speak spanish you are after all there to help people. I was out shopping the next day and I went into a bakery and I asked the lady at the counter for a pastry, she did not speak English at all, it took me a second to realize that I was in a Cuban bakery and was the only black person in the place...I was so upset and I wondered how the lady was given a job without atleast making an attempt to learn English. I'm really upset about this...I have plenty of friends who don't plan on moving back home after college, they say they won't get hired because they don't speak spanish.
Hell if I went into a job interview and said I speak a little standard English but I speak Ebonics very well and could communicate with the huge Black population in the city they throw me out on my ***
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