This is America, please order in English

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12-18-2007 @ 4:57PM

Pat said...

I have traveled to a number of foreign destinations. I have found that the US is one of the few countries that accommodates ALL languages in far too many places. For example, when traveling in Indonesia, the minute I was outside the main sections of Jakarta, very little was in English especially the menus of small, privately owned eateries. Now, none of them had a sign like this gentleman, but the point is there were no concessions made to me as a foreigner. Here we seem to take "melting pot" to heart a little too often. Where else can you go to the DMV and find the driving manuals in 14 different languages? Or ATM machines in 10 different languages? Even in this example in other countries the ATMs are in the local tongue and English, not every language under the sun. My two cents...

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