This is America, why the hell should I have to press 1 for English?
Well, to all those racist, xenophobic, supremacist douchebags, I'm going to tell you why the hell you should have to press 1 for English and why you should shut up and stick your hand in an electric socket for expressing typical unamerican behavior that proves and explains why everyone else in the world hates us. Yes, it's your fault.
1. You're assuming that English is the primary language.
Which it technically isn't, and will soon share that spot with Spanish with all the immigrants (legal or otherwise) coming up. According to Wiki, the national language is English (de facto).
De facto is a Latin expression that means "by [the] fact". In law, it is meant to mean "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but without being officially established".
See? There you go. You're just whining and upset that you have to press an extra button. Get over it. Also according to Wiki, the federal government does NOT recognize an official language. If the freakin' government (at the federal level) doesn't even give us an official language, there isn't one. We just assume it's English because the majority of the population speaks it.
2. You're an ignorant, intolerant racist.
By complaining all over cyberspace that you hate having to press 1 for English, you're proving yourself to be an ethnocentric pansy and a racist. You're saying that since WE IN AMURICUH, English should be the only language spoken ever, ergo anyone who doesn't know English for whatever reason is inferior and not worthy of living here. That's right. If you can't speak English, you don't belong here and you don't deserve to have freedom and enjoy life. Period.
Now, c'mon, people, you can't be that stupid. This is a new low. Or an old low, really, since it's been around for a while. But anyway...
Spanish-speaking people are people too. They've been around for longer than you have, as Spanish is an older language than English. Also, if you bothered to read part of that page, you would've seen that it's one of the six official languages in the UN. Six. Only six. Out of all the thousands of languages spoken around the world, only six are official in the United Nations. That's gotta count for something, right?
Oh, and fun fact:
There are more Spanish speakers in the U.S. than there are speakers of Chinese, French, Hawaiian, and the Native American languages combined. According to the 2007 American Community Survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau, Spanish is the primary language spoken at home by over 34 million people aged 5 or older. There are 45 million Hispanics who speak Spanish as a first or second language and there are 6 million Spanish students, making it the world's second-largest Spanish-speaking community, only after Mexico and ahead of Spain, Colombia and Argentina.
Yet you still think they should just learn English or GTFO? Pressing 1 for English is starting to be pretty reasonable about now.
3. You're an unamerican bigot who has seemingly forgotten what America is.
America has always taken in and taken care of immigrants of every nationality since the beginning. Keep in mind that English-speakers are actually immigrants here, after we figuratively (and literally, actually) screwed the Native Americans and destroyed their lives, families, and pretty much everything they owned. Remember that? Yeah, good times.
America is a country of immigrants. We were founded on the idea that we could escape persecution and come to a place where we can make our dreams come true. That's the American spirit. Not angrily spamming the internet with crap about how people shouldn't be allowed to speak Spanish (or that Spanish-speaking people shouldn't be allowed to use phones--both are equally ridiculous).
Spanish people exist. They have just as much right as you do to live here and enjoy their freedoms and worship whoever or whatever (cocaine!) they want, and speak whatever language they want, just like you. If you don't like that, then why are you even here? That's what America stands for and you're ruining it for everyone else. It's not Spanish-speakers that don't belong here, it's arrogant bigots like you who don't. If you can't get along, quit complaining about how everyone else should leave or shut up and take your own advice: leave or shut up.
4. You're lazy.
It's a button. A button. ONE BUTTON.
It's not the end of the world. It'll take up less than two seconds of your life. You press 1 and everything goes on like it normally should. Are you really too lazy to press one friggin button? You'll undoubtedly spend more time complaining about how you don't want to press a button than you actually do pressing said button (and you'll actually be doing both, so you're losing a lot more time). Save yourself the effort and just press the button and shut your face fingers (wait, that still doesn't make sense, never mind, just... just stop).
What happened to the America with dedicated hard workers drudging day in and day out just trying to make a living to support themselves and their families? What happened to the America that was thankful for just enough money to get by, and would've been more than content to eat stale bacon and cornbread for weeks at a time just so they could live and be happy with their families?
That America is lost and gone forever, and that's sad, it really is. It sucks. It's been replaced with a bunch of half-wit bums who have nothing better to do than to whine to everyone who will listen (and even to everyone who won't) that they don't like pressing buttons to accommodate their neighbors' language. You're pathetic. You make me sick. The moral and ethical decay of America is largely due to spoiled, selfish crotch-stains like you. I mean it.
So why should you have to press 1 for English? Because it's not the only language spoken here, and your Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters need to be able to utilize phone services just as much as you do. Because it's not that big of a deal for you to take a couple extra seconds to press a button so that people who can't speak English can save possibly hours going around to find someone who can get them what they need. And most importantly, it shows what America is all about--it shows that we can get along with others and love and accept them even though we don't (or can't) completely understand them.
So do yourself and the entire country a favor: shut up and press 1 for English.
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