Should English only speaking Americans be worried about finding a job because they don't speak Spanish?

[sage2021]

With the recent influx of illegals that only speak Spanish it may be harder to find a job unless you speak Spanish because there are so many customers/clients that need Spanish speaking companies to accommodate THEM.
In my State alone 41% of the people are Hispanic. I was desperate to find a job and everyone needed Spanish/English speaking employees.
It got to be whenever I was called for an interview, I would just ask them if speaking Spanish was a job requirement. It was! So I stopped going on interviews. After all, I was low on money and I had to put gas in my car for these jobs I wasn't even qualified for. It took me 14 months of serious job hunting until I found a job. The job I finally landed had only English speaking clients (and plenty of them).
I wonder how people in Texas, etc., are going to deal with this problem when the time comes for them? For those that don't want to work right now, they may want might want to factor this in and reconsider their options (or learn to speak Spanish now).

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@Agagagagaga finally getting some truth here! Thank you! So you saw what I'm talking about with your own eyes. It's definitely discrimination to not hire someone because they don't speak fluent in Spanish! What are your thoughts!

[purplepoppy]

Tough shit. If you live in a duel language town it's not a big ask to be expected to communicate in both languages. I'm sure you've had ample opportunity to learn when you were at school and plenty of times you could have honed your skills.
The embarrassing truth is most people who have English as a first language trail well behind other groups when it comes to learning other languages.

[sage2021]

@purplepoppy why do you sound so vicious towards me when you don't even know me, and don't know anything about my life. You missed the whole point of the question. Did you even read all of it? I am writing about what happened to ME, so it might help someone in their future.
You didn't need to get on your high horse and get all uppity with me. I thought you were nicer than that, but I guess not.

[StevieNix]

Sage,

Americans are stupid. It pains me to say that, but it's true. Ask anyone on this site what the official language is in America, and they will say it's English. They are wrong. We weren't smart enough to declare an official language.
I guarantee that the first official language of America, will be Spanish. Take that to the bank. We are toast.

[sage2021]

@StevieNix thank you so much for your thoughtful opinion. You get what I am trying to say here and I thank you for that. My real life experience with this issue is what gave me the idea to ask this question. 🌹🙋🏼‍♀️

[StevieNix]

Sage,

I love you, but drag queens are teaching our children.

[sage2021]

@StevieNix not sure what you mean about the drag queen stuff? The emoji of the girl and the sign for the female came out wrong. It was just a girl waving hello when I tapped on it. I guess these emojis do what they want and send whatever they send.

[FunkyMonkee]

You haven't seen any videos of drag queens teaching prepubescent kids (like, in 2nd grade!) about sex and homosexuality?
https://youtu.be/cZliG1YBROE

[sage2021]

@FunkyMonkee no, I had no idea this is going on. I don't go on social media sites except for GaG and they don't seem to be sayin' nothing about it 🤷🏼‍♀️

[StevieNix]

@FunkyMonkee

Funky,

I think I turned out pretty good having a mother and dad that beat my ass when I was being bad. I now right from wrong.

[FunkyMonkee]

Me, too!!

[FunkyMonkee]

I really don't, either other than to spend about 10:00 a day at FB, sometimes, not even that much! I DO watch a number of YT videos, though.

[StevieNix]

@FunkyMonkee
YouTube is awesome. You don't even need a TV subscription. My brother doesn't know it yet, but when I see him on Thursday, we're starting our own YouTube channel. My brother has two labs. One is a chocolate, and I'm not sure what you call the white one. Maybe she's a vanilla. But they both love me and I love them. I bring them presents. Our YouTube channel will be about two talking doggies. Our channel will be all about conservative political humor. My brother and his wife have a super cool barge. I don't know a more eloquent name for their boat. But when I'm on the boat with my nieces, Bailey & Willow, they just love it when I throw the Frisbee. My brother's boat is slow as fuck. But when you have an ice cold margarita in your hand and two awesome puppies, you've already arrived at your destination. You're there the minute you get on board. We can shoot tons of video from the boat. Our doggies will talk via peanut butter. They will be chomping up a storm, and we will be dubbing in the voices. Biden is the gift that keeps on giving.
My sister-in-law loves to drive the boat.
And that means that my brother and I will be whaling on our guitars. Sweet Home Alabama.

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah but, you can't find everything you want and a lot of it is edited because it might offend someone or there's copyright issues.
If I had the tech to do so or the money to buy it, I'd have my own channel, too.
With Joey, the material writes itself!! Open mouth: insert foot! and then you've got all those whiny SJW's still crying their little eyes out about how evil Trump is to help write more material for you! Maybe you can do a but with the dogs where they're talking about the SJW that used to own them, or ones that almost owned them. Y'know, because with all their butt-hurt crying, they NEED a puppy, a crying towel and a safe space!

[StevieNix]

Sage,

Your contribution to this site is unparalleled. Keep it coming.

[sage2021]

@StevieNix 🌹thank you for such a nice compliment. I plan on staying on this site for the duration, so I'll be around. Hope to run into you again ☮️

[StevieNix]

You can count on that.

[IsoUser]

All things considered i speak fluent English, Russian, German and that is before I ever left HighSchool lol, I then joined the Military and became a US Army Scout Sniper after 15 months I resigned and became a USAF PJ then after a period of time in country I became fluent in Arabic, Persian and Pashtun languages

[sage2021]

@IsoUser that is very impressive! However, you didn't mention that you learned Spanish - which is the issue.

[IsoUser]

I never learned Spanish after my HighSchool Spanish teacher introduced me as Jaime I dropped the class that day and took German and Russian languages and scripts

[IsoUser]

I personally wouldn't be.

[OlderAndWiser]

I understand both sides of this problem. Companies want to serve the largest population possible. But being denied a job because you don't speak a FOREIGN language seems extremely unfair.

[sage2021]

@OlderAndWiser do you think it is discrimination? I couldn't believe that was happening to me. I was a single mom will h no job for 14 months because I didn't speak Spanish. Thank God I finally found an accounting firm that just had white client's.

[OlderAndWiser]

It's not illegal discrimination because it is not a characteristic that you either can't change (like race, age, gender) or shouldn't be expected to change (like your religion.) However, it does seem very unfair to non-bilingual citizens.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[BeMuse]

Nope. The census puts the Hispanic population at 18.5% of the American population and the majority of them speak English. If your business caters to illegal aliens who don't have social security numbers, then you're probably in the wrong business.

[BeMuse]

90% of American born Hispanics speak fluent English. They are just as American as anyone else and can speak and do speak English daily. Foreign born Hispanics have a much lower rate or proficiency down around 35%. That said, those going about it legally and working toward citizenship are working hard to learn the language every day. The only ones that don't bother are generally illegal and often migrant flowing back and forth across the border for seasonal work and or criminal activity.

[sage2021]

@BeMuse thank you for your opinion. I do have questions for you. What was the year that the Census Bureau came out with that figure? Because I doubt it is that low of a percentage today. It has to be higher today. My other question is, how come I had such a big problem landing a job because I don't speak Spanish? And that was many, many years ago, so I can only imagine what it's like now. And the Hispanic people that worked for me had green cards to come here and work for companies. Can they still work without a social security number and just use a green card?

[BeMuse]

2020. The census is taken every 10 years...
www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221

I don't know why you're have major issues. I've lived in Florida all my life. Our Hispanic population is 26.4% of the state population so we are well above average here. No one has ever even asked me if I speak Spanish in a job interview. It's never been a requirement for any job I have ever applied for. Some jobs will consider it a bonus skill (more like a useful hobby), but it is never important to the core of the job description. I've worked with tons of Spanish people over the years and they all speak English. My guess is that you live right on the Mexican border. Mexicans account for 54% of the illegals. In Florida we get a lot of South and Central Americans, people from the Caribbean, and Spaniards that come here legally and want to be here. They don't like illegals either. Mexico is a country with a lot of corruption. You have a lot of class division as well and the economy is basically in an economic depression. So the have-nots think they just need to go to America for benefits. A lot of the lower class Mestizos have their heads filled with propaganda just like American Blacks that the evil white man is the colonizer and that they stole everything. They have a movement called Reconquista where they are trying to invade and colonize the southwest to try and claim the territory. A lot of Latin American street gangs like La Raza and MS-13 are involved. They are often funded by the cartels directly and indirectly by communists/globalists like Soros and the CCP.

[BeMuse]

Thus if you are working for those organizations that are coming across the border with cartel fund, starting business, and discriminating based on language, you are likely helping out the enemy.

[Agagagagaga]

Cut the bullshit. Lots of jobs in Florida explicitly state that they are looking for bilingual employees who speak Spanish fluently. I lived in Florida for years. I’ve gone into lots of places in where the people barely spoke a word of English. Why? Because why should they? Everyone around them also speaks Spanish, and local, state, and federal agencies will provide forms and services for them in dual languages.

[BeMuse]

@Agagagagaga Spread whatever lies help your narrative. About the only place I ever ran into someone that could barely speak English was Little Havana in Miami and that's probably two or three times in my entire life. If you work in international business dealing with Latin America and you're in client facing sales then maybe you need it. That said I have a brother that works in software for ports (shipping) primarily through the Caribbean and he only needs to know English. They would actually prefer he speaks German over Spanish.

[Agagagagaga]

Dude I’m not lying and I don’t have to make anything up lol. I was mostly in Broward and Dade county. I frequently have gone into businesses where the people barely spoke English. Employers know that more and more immigrants are coming into the country every day, many of them Spanish and Creole speaking. This is why more and more job positions are seeking multilingual speakers and even requiring fluency in Spanish.

Something tells me that you’re the one committed to a false narrative.

[BeMuse]

@Agagagagaga Oh yeah what's that your compulsion to lying? I've lived here my entire life. I grew up in the tri-county area. I was born in Ft. Lauderdale and live predominately in Boca Raton. Most of my life I worked in either Broward of Palm Beach County, but I've work in several others. I'm a native Floridian. My parents were native Floridians. Shit, I have family members with their names on front doors of Churches down on Deval Street in Key West because we've been here so long and actually founding things... Go blow smoke up someone else's ass. There are Spanish people here. There are also Haitians. They speak their language sure, but they also speak English.

[sage2021]

@BeMuse so you took your information from a Census done over two years ago - so it is NOT accurate. And I bet most of them didn't even fill out the census form they were given so a lot we're not counted or maybe not even truthful.
I don't know what you look like, but if you look Hispanic, that is probably why no one asked if you speak Spanish during your interview or your area isn't heavily as populated with illegals/Hispanics.
There are 10,000 more coming to the USA at this writing. They are bitching about why they have to come to the USA in caravans. How many hundred of thousands more will be coming to the USA?
I am just trying to show people that this could be a problem when they are trying to find a job. If it happened to me it can happen to anyone.
Plus @StevieNix even said there are signs in the windows in Florida wanting fluent English/Spanish is who they want to apply for the jobs.
Look, you have made me just not give a heck about this question or about anyone it concerns! I was just trying to give heads up to people - but screw it now! Thanks!!!

[BeMuse]

How many Latin American's do you suspect immigrated to America in the past two years and what sort of dent do you think that puts in a population of 332 million people? Do some basic math. At most it shifted a fraction of one percent nation wide. I see news headlines talking estimating something like 1.5 million people coming in from Mexico... That's +0.45% if that's even accurate. It's not abnormal for 15-20 million to cross the Mexican border every year. They come and go. Some for seasonal work. Some for crime... I know Soros is funding migrant caravans as asymmetric warfare on the southern border, but the numbers are not crazy high percentage wise across the entire nation. That's not to say that they don't stress local economies/governments on the border though.

[sage2021]

@BeMuse since you seem to know stats on a lot of things, tell me this:what percentage of white people live in America?

[BeMuse]

I gave you the link to the the census. All you have to do is read it. They have the White percentage and White (not Hispanic or Latino) percentage. It's not a secret or anything. That said, most Latin Americans are White. Latin America was colonized by Europeans after all and during the mass migrations from Europe to the Americas, just like the USA got tons of new populations, so to did other American nations.



Hispanics that migrate to the USA legally tend to be White. For example, my brother's girlfriend is Mexican. She was born and raised there, but she is pale skinned, has red hair, and is of Dutch heritage... Most of the illegals tend to not be White... Often they are Mestizos. In their own country they tend to be the poor people...

[BeMuse]

Here's where you have a divide in culture between Florida and out West.



Look at the breakdown of country of Origin. Notice how out West in California and Texas how they are almost exclusively Mexican with 84% and 83% of the Hispanic population respectively. Mexicans account for 54% of illegals. Hense, Most of the Hispanic population out West is riddle with people that are 1) willing to break the law to get to American and 2) likely involved in the Reconquista movement. Thus they don't respect the local laws and customs and are working against the local population to occupy their territory. In Florida, 64% are Caribbean with ties to Puerto Rico (American citizens), Cuba which leans Republican and were a former US territory historically, and the Dominican Republic. Mexican is only 17% of the Hispanic population here. We also have large South American populations at 13% who many times fled places like Venezuela so they understand that Communism is bad, and American freedom is good. Therefore they fight to maintain America, rather than to destroy America, culturally fragment us, and balkanize our country. They understand that America is the last castle and the fight has to be won here.

[BeMuse]

In case your are still confused about what is happening to you in the South West here is a short introduction...

archive.humanevents.com/.../

Migrants are being utilized as weapons in asymetric warfare to drain resources from western state's social nets and stress public services. They ramp up crime and drugs to make land less desirable which reduces it's purchase price. Many dodge taxes by working under the table and drain money from the local economy. They send that money back to Mexico to fund more people to come to your state. Ultimately they are trying to colonize the region and take over governments so that they can secede from the union and steal your state. In the meanwhile they are implementing communist tactics from Cuban Balseros Crisis in an attempt to extort American tax payers to send money to Mexico and establish an economy on their soil. It's an engineered migration crisis used as a coercive instrument. They have no intent to return to Mexico if funding is given and industrial infrastructure is developed. They just want to con as much as they can so that the resources can be used in their Trojan war against America. You should wrap your head around it so that you know what you are dealing with in your own backyard. I should have to say this, but don't work for or shop at places that are trying to take you out... It's pretty common sense, but most people aren't paying attention.

[BeMuse]

This is why you always see psychotic leftist Mexicans on here pushing race hate shit, calling people colonists, talking about California seceding and becoming it's own country, etc. They've been cooped by the communists just like the Blacks in BLM.

[007kingifrit]

i got multiple job offers this month and i don't speak Spanish

[Surely]

We will soon be the minority and I am sure we won’t be treated like we have treated the non English speaking people!
Imagine the cost savings if we didn’t have to print things in umpteen different languages!

[IsoUser]

I hear you brother but don't be a jerk , Lmao Your way too funny 😉😁😁

[ugbucket]

90% of hispanics need to be deported. English is America's real language.

[andreasderjuengere]

I pity the people who only know one language.
On BOTH sides. They are so... limited :)

[Amur8711]

No, because they are coming here, they need to learn English. Most of them no more English than American know Spanish.

[sage2021]

@Amur8711 why should English speaking American's need to learn Spanish? After all, we live in America 🇺🇸 and were taught English, not the other way around.

[Amur8711]

You in California or New Mexico?

[exitseven]

They all know how to apply for EBT cards and game the system, Everything else in no comprende.

[Amur8711]

Because they just do it for them

[Guy13]

What…that makes n sense?

[sage2021]

@Guy13 that's what I thought too until it happened to me! There are 10,000 more illegals on there way right now, on top of the hundreds of thousands that have been arriving in the USA in recent months. Top that with how many millions of people in America speak Spanish. I don't know where you live, but this is a real possibility! It happened to me and there wasn't a darn thing I could do about. You hide and watch because you might see this happening soon. After all, they came to America to live the American dream, but refuse to learn English. So, we will have to cater to them. Think about it. I like to look at things that might happen in the future - and this is one of them.