I got the idea for this topic from another board. A lot of Immagrants enter countries (sometimes illegally) and they expect to get jobs and be accepted without learning the main language of the country. I am thinking about Mexicans in the US here, but I'm sure there are others. Instead of them learning English, I believe some people expect us to learn Spanish to make them more comfortable. Isn't that a little backwards? (correct me if I'm wrong on them wanting us to learn it...)
I've never experianced this but I've heard of people going to bookstores and fast food places and the people there didn't speak English. To me that seems very awkward and very very strange.
I know America is a melting pot, and I'm NOT trying to insult any immagrents, but it just seems like common descensy for them to learn the main language either before or after they get to the new country. It's rather rude to expect the natives to change for you. If I was moving to Japan or wherever, I'd deffinately try and learn the langauge. They don't need to speak it flawlessly, but enough for curtousy's sake and so both them and the natives wouldn't have communication problems. What do y'all think?
Oh and it's perfectly acceptable for them to still speak their own langauge, I'm just saying they should learn the new one to function better in society.