"Illegal alien" is a racist phrase
- Thread starter SouthernN'Proud
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MrBishop said:
If that guy who lived in Northern California for 25 years, then won a multi-million dollar lottery but never learned english isn't an illegal alien...who is (btw-he never applied for citizenship)
Illegal aliens refuse to become Americans. Immigrants are in a hurry to do so.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
An illegal immigrant is a living person. That statistic is meaningless.
Professur
Well-Known Member
Here's a question for all you enlightened people.
I'm processing a request for Mr Alejandro Gonzales at the moment. Now, I know that his first name is pronounced Aly-handro, from personal experience. Jsut a show of hands, who thinks that an effort should be made (by anyone, not just yourself) to accomodate the fact that, in some languages, letters are pronounced differently. Should Mr. Gonzales modify the spelling of his name to reflect the nation he now lives in, and the local vocabulary? Should he change the pronounciation to reflect the spelling? Or is Mr. Gonzales entitled to demand that the local spelling and vocabulary be set aside and everyone learn to recognise and pronounce his name as it would be in spanish?
En Garde.
I'm processing a request for Mr Alejandro Gonzales at the moment. Now, I know that his first name is pronounced Aly-handro, from personal experience. Jsut a show of hands, who thinks that an effort should be made (by anyone, not just yourself) to accomodate the fact that, in some languages, letters are pronounced differently. Should Mr. Gonzales modify the spelling of his name to reflect the nation he now lives in, and the local vocabulary? Should he change the pronounciation to reflect the spelling? Or is Mr. Gonzales entitled to demand that the local spelling and vocabulary be set aside and everyone learn to recognise and pronounce his name as it would be in spanish?
En Garde.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
I'll bite.
The translation (for lack of better term) of my first name into French sounds like Michelle. Were I to reside in a French speaking locale, and a French speaking person referred to me as Michel, I would not be offended in the slightest. I would, however, continue to use the name my mother gave me at birth, as I feel that overrides dialect differences.
The translation (for lack of better term) of my first name into French sounds like Michelle. Were I to reside in a French speaking locale, and a French speaking person referred to me as Michel, I would not be offended in the slightest. I would, however, continue to use the name my mother gave me at birth, as I feel that overrides dialect differences.
2minkey
bootlicker
well apparently the more "inclusive" way is to call them "undocumented" but, believe it or not, "illegal alien" is fine with me.
now i'd be nice to alejandro and pronounce his name the right way. though i did notice today at lunch i found myself not giving a shit, and using only english with the server at the taqueria.
now i'd be nice to alejandro and pronounce his name the right way. though i did notice today at lunch i found myself not giving a shit, and using only english with the server at the taqueria.
Your first name is Mitchell...
..waitaminute...
...So's mine. 
