Why Speak Spanish?
Why do people work hard, fight, and often die to come to America? Too succeed? To be free? To learn? To raise children in peace and liberty? The best accomplishment of any of these is by speaking English.
This site identifies reasons why people who immigrate both illegally and legally to the USA should learn to, or continue speaking Spanish. It includes reasons to skip learning English even after struggling to enter the USA to work, advance, and become a US citizen.
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1.  Please select each Spanish-speaking nation that has advanced further in industry, economics, and raised its citizens' standard of living beyond the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.
Spain
Mexico
Venezuela
Argentina
Cuba
Other:
2.  The purpose of language is to provide effective communication between people. When a language supports the creation, analysis and contemplation of ideas, concepts, and technical processes, people using it may potentially communicate effectively. If those same people use a less developed language, they will not communicate as effectively.
Using the magnitude of progress made, it may be assumed that the people of advanced nations used a language capable of effective communication.
Select the group of nations that have apparently used the most effective language.
Spain, Mexico, Central & South American nations
United States, Great Britain, Australia
3.  When I speak English, I am speaking:

     Please select all that apply.
An improved version of the language used by Shakespeare, Bacon, Edgar Allen Poe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain & thousands of other literary masters.
The language used by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, & thousands of other successful statesmen.
The language used by Einstein, Tesla, Edison, Bell, Henry Ford & thousands of other successful inventors.
The language used by philosophers, inventors, scientists, historians, literary greats, statesmen, & NASA explorers.
The language of computer hardware & software developers, architects & users.
I don't care.
4.  English is the language used in the United States for centuries. It is the language that provided communication between people so effectively that they were able to cooperate and build the US.
Millions of people have died over the centuries defending the US. Millions of people have died attempting to emigrate to the US.
Today millions of legal & illegal immigrants are fighting to stay in the US. Why would they not want to speak English?

     Please select all that apply.
They do not want to join Americans who work hard to build a better America.
They only want to work menial jobs for low wages.
They do not care about helping their kids succeed.
They do not want to be citizens of the USA.
They intend to go back to their homelands.
Other:
5.  Several factors came together to make the US the most successful nation in history. How much did having the English language as a nearly universal language support building the US? Much
 Somewhat
 Little
6.  Some people say that speaking English was not important in the building of the US.
If you believe that, how would you explain the relative lack of success of Mexico, Central American nations, South American nations and the relative success of Canada, Australia, and England?
People of those relatively less successful nations are relatively inferior.
People of those relatively more successful nations are relatively superior.
English is a language that provides for analyzing, thinking, & expressing thoughts clearly & conceptualizing complex ideas.
I will have to think about it.
7.  How important is it that US employers direct all employees to speak English among themselves and with customers? Essential
 Somewhat essential
Should not be required
8.  I would choose to speak Spanish instead of English after coming to the US if:
I did not want to work on better paying jobs.
I did not want to get educated in science, medicine, technology, literature, the arts, government & the law.
I did want to work on low-paying jobs, not get educated, & keep my foreign citizenship.
Other:
9.  Successful industrialized nations are liberal, democratic, English-speaking societies that are well established. It is up to people who come from other cultures to adjust their behavior accordingly if they expect to gain long-term employment and benefits. Agree
 Obviously this is true.
Arizona, May, 2010
Protestors demand repeal of the law requiring immigrants to be legal -- not illegal.  Protestors call Arizona's law racist.
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