Almost all instructions in America or in both English and Spanish,what do you think of this? Do you even care?
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Crystal
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To be a fully functioning and efficient member of American society you must speak, or at least understand, English. There is no way around it. This is true now, but in thirty years English speaking caucasian people will probably be a minority.
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English and Spanish are the de facto official languages of the US. At this point I'd usually go into ignorant bigoted ranting, but it's probably best if I didn't.
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I'm in Europe so have no personal interest. But just imagine the chaos if there were no Spanish offered at all in the US.
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I appreciate that. It gives me another chance to improve my Spanish.
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Actually, instructions for most nationally distributed consumer goods are usually in English, Spanish, French and German, in my experience. Most government instructions are in English and Spanish (except perhaps Louisiana, which might also include French). I think it's normal, natural, and no, I don't particularly "care", just like I don't "care" that sidewalks have wheelchair ramps, or that a lot of crosswalk signals are both audible and visible, so that people who can't see the sign can hear how long the signal is good for. "Reasonable accommodation" makes sense, doesn't it?
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I'm in the UK and all our instructions and so on are in a whole host of languages especially if from local government or from the NHS (medical stuff). We don't just translate into one other language, these leaflets (etc), come in about 8 different ones if not more. Even some of the road signs come in things as well as English- everything from Hindu to Polish and beyond.
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