The US has no official language (Page 2): No....NO...No It's all about Spanish. Never Italian, German and of course never Hebrew. Both my parents were immigrants. One spoke English the...

traderjohn Loc: New York City

machia wrote:

This won’t be popular, but here it goes.
Every immigrant who ever came here learned English. Every immigrant except the Hispanic in the past 25 years. They are catered to in fact. I won’t get political but the catering has an obvious cause.
Press 3 for Italian ? Press 4 for Japanese ? Press 5 for Hebrew ?

No....NO...No
It's all about Spanish. Never Italian, German and of course never Hebrew.
Both my parents were immigrants. One spoke English the other not so much. My mother only spoke her native language around family and friends. She never expected not to learn English.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Kmgw9v wrote:

You became very political—and fast.

Really? I took it as a statement of fact.

machia Loc: NJ

The 1965 Immigration Act and votes.
And the catering encourages non-assimilation. Political ? It’s actually the cultural impact I’m seeing all around me.
The “melting pot” is gone.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Longshadow wrote:

Really? I took it as a statement of fact.

It is fruitless to dispute statements of fact.

jcave Loc: Cecilia, Kentucky

And nether does the U.S. have an official religion. We do have an official Constitution, although the agenda of some is to disrupt and destroy by calling that into play as well as our history.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

chrissybabe wrote:

I suspect the shuttle crashed because one of the engineers (also a photographer in his spare time) was asked to change an adapter but instead he changed a spigot which so happened to be the connection to the oxygen tank.........

Is that supposed to be funny?

jcave Loc: Cecilia, Kentucky

And neither does the U.S. have an official religion. We do have an official Constitution, although the agenda of some is to disrupt and destroy by calling that into play as well as our history. Diversity is welcome by most Americans, but a cultural coup is going to fail.

jcave Loc: Cecilia, Kentucky

And neither does the U.S. have an official religion. We do have an official Constitution, although the agenda of some is to disrupt and destroy by calling that into play as well as our history. Diversity is welcome by most Americans, but a cultural coup is going to fail.

machia Loc: NJ

Kmgw9v wrote:

You became very political—and fast.
What is the “obvious cause”?

The 1965 Immigration Act and votes.
Political ?
The catering has damaged the melting pot by encouraging non-assimilation. This is a cultural problem now.
My great grandmother came to the United States in 1956. She was 72 years old and learned English. If she came here now in 2019 there’s still no button for her to push. And there shouldn’t be, so why the preferential treatment to one group?
The answer is very obvious.

machia Loc: NJ

Rab-Eye wrote:

Is that supposed to be funny?

My same thoughts.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

I am an immigrant that came to this country from Cuba when Mr. Castro took over the Island and made it a communist country. I came legally after requesting political asylum. For the past 58 years I have worked hard, learned the English I know, paid taxes, raised my children all of them born here and never ever had a problem with the law. As a citizen I have done my best.

Miami, where I live, is a very cosmopolitan city. 52 languages and dialects are spoken here in addition to the official English language. We are not that different than other cities in this great country with large populations of different ethnic groups. Even the pilgrims that founded this country came from another one. In case you ask I do not favor illegal immigration. A country has its own right to protect its borders.

That who is free of sinning can throw the first stone.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

machia wrote:

The 1965 Immigration Act and votes.
Political ?
The catering has damaged the melting pot by encouraging non-assimilation. This is a cultural problem now.
My great grandmother came to the United States in 1956. She was 72 years old and learned English. If she came here now in 2019 there’s still no button for her to push. And there shouldn’t be, so why the preferential treatment to one group?
The answer is very obvious.

I am apparently thick. If there is preferential treatment, the “why” is not obvious. Why is there preferential treatment given to Hispanics?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

camerapapi wrote:

I am an immigrant that came to this country from C... (show quote)

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Well, this escalated quickly.

Who cares what language someone is speaking? The only people that do are probably self-conscience and thinking they are being talked about. Which they probably aren't, unless they are acting like fool to these people.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

chrissybabe wrote:

...also explains why they call an adapter a spigot. Sounds like anything goes.

In American, an adapter and a spigot are two different things.

A spigot is a valve on the end of a water pipe which you can open to get water to fill a bucket or other container. Sometimes called a sillcock.

An adapter is a fitting that connects two different types of pipe or tube. A spigot is a specific type of adapter that connects to a pipe fitting on one side and a hose fitting on the other and has a valve in between. Some spigots omit the hose fitting and just provide an open tube for the water. There is another type of adapter that connects a pipe fitting on one side to a hose fitting without a valve in between. This is called an adapter, not a spigot because of the lack of the valve.

An adapter is not limited to pipes. It's anything that connects two dissimilar fittings. Could be pipes, optics, electronics.................