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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
My gripe is with the concept that a person can come up here (legally or not) and expect to impose their culture on the rest of the country. Someone please explain to me why our entire country should learn to speak Mexican? For crying out loud, the teachers in schools now are having to be bilingual in order to teach! If I were to move to Mexico (or France, or Germany, or Italy, or Russia) I wouldn't expect the entire society to magically start speaking English to accomodate me, why should we be expected to do the same?
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Exactly! That is how I see it as well. I am a guest in the country (until I receive citizenship, if i want it, that is) and I ought to behave accordingly.
I had some quite fierey exchanges with peoples that actually made excuses for why it is ok not to behave like a guest or to fit into society.