Tom Brokaw: ‘Hispanics Should Work Harder At Assimilation’

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Brokaw later said he felt “terrible a part of my comments on Hispanics offended some members of that proud culture.”

On Sunday, during an appearance on “Meet the Press,” NBC News’ Tom Brokaw reiterated what he called his long-held belief that “Hispanics should work harder at assimilation.”

The veteran news reporter offered his thoughts on immigration during a roundtable discussion on the government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s demand for funding a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The problem is in Wyoming and in South Dakota, they think they need a wall. And in Texas and in Arizona, they don’t,” host Chuck Todd said.

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I spent 2 yrs in San Antonio and delt with these people at work. The 10 year old kid could speak English but not the parents

I ask one kid if the parents ever thought about learning english he said they didnt want to and made him speak only spanish at home

I am in Asheville now one of the guys at work that is 40 is Ukrainian been here 3 years and has learned english... He said he wants to be American etc ..Mexicans here for 25 yrs cant speak it and dont want to
 
volsrock said:
I spent 2 yrs in San Antonio and delt with these people at work. The 10 year old kid could speak English but not the parents

I ask one kid if the parents ever thought about learning english he said they didnt want to and made him speak only spanish at home

I am in Asheville now one of the guys at work that is 40 is Ukrainian been here 3 years and has learned english... He said he wants to be American etc ..Mexicans here for 25 yrs cant speak it and dont want to
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A simple solution is don’t offer their language

I won’t rent to people who can’t speak or read English. I have a very detailed application. If they can’t read it well tough shit for them
 
cawacko said:
Assimilate to what?
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I thought the question was a good one. I thought about it and I would not. I would make due with the tools I had. But I would also pick it up over time if it became pervasive in my life and there became a need for me to learn. Assuming I was beginning from a position that a majority of my dealings in life would involve learning the other language, yeah, I'd probably invest the time to learn unless I had a comfortable existence without the effort. If I didn't really need to learn it, I'd try to avoid it.

I should add a disclaimer: I have the greatest respect for all the south american workers I've encountered. They mostly all work as hard or harder than I do (I do hard work.. it sucks). Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Equadorans I met were tough as nails and every bit as worthy in the trades as the micks and wops and poles and the krauts. I loved working in the trades because I met all kinds of great people. There was even the dude from Trinidad that always bummed smokes and never had a single buck on him when he ordered food at the deli LOL. I felt so worried for the dude with the snowstorm coming, I bought him some windshield wipers at the Newtown Amoco so he could drive down Rt25 to Bridgeport. We had stopped at Davey Brothers down in the hook (Sandy Hook right next to the school) for some grub and the dude, Bala, ordered a sandwich and then put us all on the spot when it came to ring it up. LOL I payed for his fucking sandwich, the fucker. Everyone else there refused. I was only 19 LOL live n learn
 
volsrock said:
I spent 2 yrs in San Antonio and delt with these people at work. The 10 year old kid could speak English but not the parents

I ask one kid if the parents ever thought about learning english he said they didnt want to and made him speak only spanish at home

I am in Asheville now one of the guys at work that is 40 is Ukrainian been here 3 years and has learned english... He said he wants to be American etc ..Mexicans here for 25 yrs cant speak it and dont want to
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Nothing surprising about a kid being able to speak two languages while his parents can't. It's much easier for children to learn such things because 1) they haven't spent decades speaking only one language and 2) they're in school all day around their English speaking friends and they have to take English classes. Plus, children are just more receptive to picking up new knowledge. Their minds are still curious and not weighted down with all the worries, concerns and prejudices associated with adulthood.

#MAGA said:
Are they too stupid?

PS

We will never be a minority it is a pipe dream of yours
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It's easy for guys like you two who can barely communicate in one language, to rant and rave about how other people should learn a second one.

I bet neither of you has ever even had to try.
 
#MAGA said:
A simple solution is don’t offer their language

I won’t rent to people who can’t speak or read English. I have a very detailed application. If they can’t read it well tough shit for them
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Learning a new language seems like an awful lot of work just to rent the spare room in back of your trailer.
 
Nomad said:
Nothing surprising about a kid being able to speak two languages while his parents can't. It's much easier for children to learn such things because 1) they haven't spent decades speaking only one language and 2) they're in school all day around their English speaking friends and they have to take English classes. Plus, children are just more receptive to picking up new knowledge. Their minds are still curious and not weighted down with all the worries, concerns and prejudices associated with adulthood.



It's easy for guys like you two who can barely communicate in one language, to rant and rave about how other people should learn a second one.

I bet neither of you has ever even had to try.
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Bullshit the guy from Ukraine didnt have a problem learning English at 40 yrs old...why? Because he wanted to!
 
volsrock said:
I spent 2 yrs in San Antonio and delt with these people at work. ..Mexicans here for 25 yrs cant speak it and dont want to
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Same here. I used to work at a community health center and most of the adult Mesican patients couldn't speak a word of english. Not a fucking word. I'd ask them how long they lived here and I'd typically get 20 something yrs. Pathetic. I'd think you'd learn just from osmosis in that amt. of time.
You learn the language of the country you live in.
I lived in Germany for 3 yrs. and worked with Americans all day but kept at it. It was about a yr. before I could have any kind of meaningful conversation in German then it snowballed from there.
Not learning the language of the country you live in is pure laziness. It opens one up to the culture of the people you live with and the benefits are more than worth it.
 
volsrock said:
I spent 2 yrs in San Antonio and delt with these people at work. The 10 year old kid could speak English but not the parents

I ask one kid if the parents ever thought about learning english he said they didnt want to and made him speak only spanish at home

I am in Asheville now one of the guys at work that is 40 is Ukrainian been here 3 years and has learned english... He said he wants to be American etc ..Mexicans here for 25 yrs cant speak it and dont want to
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Maybe his parents work for trump & don't need to speak english...
 
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