Nonsense.
If you want to deal with the real world, as you yell it, go do what I did and volunteer work with real people showing up in real time to learn English. This wasn't an enrollment of well to do White privileged Americans taking an adult ed course for fun. These were real folks working real jobs and wanting a real understanding of English so they could go and apply for real citizenship. Yep. Didn't see that one coming, did ya. That's the fact, Bob - the vast majority of my students were learning English so they could go through the process to become American citizens.
This crapola today that is gaining popularity with the eternally frightened segment of society (frightened of terrorists, frightened of Muslims, frightened of immigrants, frightened of everything) likes to scream that them Messicans is a-takin' away our jobs. And of course that's bullshit. No Mexican has ever taken your job or anyone elses. You know who has? The American CEO who moved the company's production to Mexico so he can pay his labor force PENNIES AN HOUR, that's who. So be sure you know where your ire is properly targeted before you let it fly.
Oh and Lou Dobbs can suck my White ass. He is an ignorant piece of bigotted filth who is guaranteed a spot on the national media because...well....he's an ignorant piece of bigotted filth. Like his pal Tom Tancredo.
If you want to save English, first learn to speak and write it well yourself. Then - GO TEACH IT.
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Oh and uh, I just saw this article - maybe THIS has a lot to do with the problem in your neck of the woods there, Bob:
Immigration is long, confusing process for most
http://www.olathedailynews.com/Hispanic ... nic6.shtml
If you want to deal with the real world, as you yell it, go do what I did and volunteer work with real people showing up in real time to learn English. This wasn't an enrollment of well to do White privileged Americans taking an adult ed course for fun. These were real folks working real jobs and wanting a real understanding of English so they could go and apply for real citizenship. Yep. Didn't see that one coming, did ya. That's the fact, Bob - the vast majority of my students were learning English so they could go through the process to become American citizens.
This crapola today that is gaining popularity with the eternally frightened segment of society (frightened of terrorists, frightened of Muslims, frightened of immigrants, frightened of everything) likes to scream that them Messicans is a-takin' away our jobs. And of course that's bullshit. No Mexican has ever taken your job or anyone elses. You know who has? The American CEO who moved the company's production to Mexico so he can pay his labor force PENNIES AN HOUR, that's who. So be sure you know where your ire is properly targeted before you let it fly.
Oh and Lou Dobbs can suck my White ass. He is an ignorant piece of bigotted filth who is guaranteed a spot on the national media because...well....he's an ignorant piece of bigotted filth. Like his pal Tom Tancredo.
If you want to save English, first learn to speak and write it well yourself. Then - GO TEACH IT.
*******
Oh and uh, I just saw this article - maybe THIS has a lot to do with the problem in your neck of the woods there, Bob:
Immigration is long, confusing process for most
http://www.olathedailynews.com/Hispanic ... nic6.shtml