In order to be a citizen, "you will need to show that you can speak and read in English. You will need to demonstrate your English skills at your citizenship interview. The USCIS officer who interviews you will of course address you in English, and observe how well you respond to questions and instructions. The officer will also ask you to read a short passage, and to write a sentence that he or she says aloud (dictates) to you."
I remember shopping in Bodegon when it first opened on Lake Worth Road at the Town & Country Shopping Center. It was only a few years ago. I had shopped at Publix there ever since that had opened. On that first visit to Bodegon, I encountered no one speaking English. Needless to say, I have not been back. Now I understand that they do have some employees who speak English.
However, is it possible that they are not interested in the American English speaking citizen as a shopper? Is it the ever-growing illegal alien population that they want to attract? Why would they have an insert consisting of two pages, folded, such as this in the Palm Beach Post printed all in Spanish? Why would they discourage an entire demographic?
It's simple, they have their clientele and don't want the general population, racism. That being said, I go in a pinch and have no problem, but there ia not the full range of products I need and the fruit veg dept is inferior.
ReplyDeleteThey always have their adds that I get int he mail in both English and Spanish. I love them, they have great prices. I go there, Bravo, and Presidente each week, their prices are about 1/3 of the price of Publix so I understand why people who want to save would go to this store. I am lucky as I can speak English and Spanish, but I have found there are always people who speak English in all these stores to some degree or well. I think they are great stores for people coming here with limited English. One thing we all need to remember, many of us may have spouses who come from Latin America and English is not their first language so having places like this are good for them and for getting jobs too. Times have changed and are area is primarily Spanish speaking now, I guess due to that there will be more white flight unless they integrate and assimilate into the Spanish culture that is here now and taken over our city. I only wish all illegals and undocumented would pay their fair share of taxes and be made legal to not live in the shadows. I wish we had what they do in the European Union and you can move around and work and get a job where ever there is work for you, but done legally, so all pay taxes and not living in the shadows. There is just too much room for corruption the way it is now. If you think this is bad, it is only going to get worse for you with all in Spanish unless you learn and assimilate to it. This is America!
ReplyDeleteI am not disturbed by this. We need to accept that our geographic area has been taken over by the Latinos and Haitians.
ReplyDeleteWhat disturbs me greatly is crime here. Thursday night a helicopter was flying over my house for 30 min or longer, just the day or two before one from the Burger King shooting incident. It happens all the time, it has me on pins and needles, all this crime and I just don't like hearing the helicopter circle and circle, it makes me tense. I don't know how much longer I can continue to live here with all this crime. Our city and central Palm Beach County has a serious problem with bad crimes. It feels very unsafe and insecure. You know on Thursday evening we went to the beach, when we came back they had the bridge closed and we had to go down to Lantana to comeback to our house in dwtn Lake Worth. What caused the bridge closure, they never say anything on the news? Crime here seems out of control, we have a lot of bad elements, the Hispanics, the Haitians, the illegals, we house all the poor and criminals here in this city. You still see all these drug illegals walking around putting themselves and driver in dangers being drunk stumbling around. I don't now how long I can continue living in this city!
Ridiculous at 9:29am if I wanted to assimilate to the "Spanish" culture I'd move to Spain. I guess you assimulated in the bedroom, loads of fun til he gets another woman as is his macho birthright.
ReplyDeleteAt 9:35am don't forget the crime wave brought to us by sober houses, notice the walking dead in our streets with nothing but do but pee in a cup. Is this really the only Americans wr can attract here? True the central americans can't hold their beer and abuse their wives and we don't need the cost of police and ambulance for that AND the O D crowd.
ReplyDeleteIf I went to France or Germany and become a citizen, I would learn the language. Bodegon is catering to the illegal. If you don't want to learn the language and work for a living, get the hell out of here.
ReplyDelete@9:35...why should we accept this? Laws are constantly ignored and people are crossing our borders daily.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who lives in South Florida and is offended by its cultural diversity is going to miserable. I've known plenty of people who wind up leaving after a few years. You can be offended and frustrated or can find a city that better suits you. Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Dakotas are big states with plenty of cities that have neighbors that probably better fit your tastes.
ReplyDeleteI think someone once described America as a "melting pot." I love this country for it. Most Americans do.
I am greatly disturbed by the Americans who are perfectly willing to give up their city, county and country to those who have come here illegally and who exist here illegally. What are you thinking?? Do you suffer from self-hate?? Do you not know that these people would not tolerate in their own countries a large population of foreigners even if it did not cost them? The Dominican Republican recently ejected all Haitians. Israel jails and deports Africans (even those who are Jewish), Mexico recently forced the ouster of the Mennonites who'd been living and farming there for decades and Guatemala forced out a community of Orthodox Jews.
ReplyDeleteYet all of these people come here. I believe Trump will be elected, and that they will be deported. I can't wait to get our city back. I can't wait to hear my native language again. It will be a wonderful thing for Lake Worth, and a wonderful for the country, to return to the rule of law. The situation now is LAW-less and therefore deeply offensive to all decent and law-abiding Americans. Want to speak Spanish and shop in Latin grocery stores? You're going to have to go to Latin America. We're taking our country back.
We can only imagine we speak Spanish they laugh at the attempts of their locally schooled children, imagine what they do behind the backs of "gringos"
ReplyDeleteMOST Americans for whom I know, want LEGAL residents living here in this country. We should not have to live in country with open borders allowing all sorts of criminals into our country.
ReplyDeleteIn today's paper "man" charged with rape, impregnating 12 year old. Honduran national causing years of pain to victim, her baby and US taxpayers. This is fact but rabid democtats will call it racist.
ReplyDeleteAnd the ultra right don't want to allow abortions... How do even sleep at night with the prospect of forcing a 12 years old tape victim to having the child of her rapist. You people make me want to puke.
DeleteHe should be shot upon conviction as his come is a capital rape. And she should be allowed to have a state paid for abortion to rid the world of his evil seed.
I remember when our area had a very high population of Finnish people. I never saw a Publix flier printed in Finnish.
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ReplyDelete@8:00--What makes me puke, are the liberals wanting open borders allowing these incidents to continue--rape, murder and a total drain on society.
ReplyDelete@8:10--probably same person.
The Statute of Liberty was a gift from France in 1886. Times were very different then. Now we have criminals crossing our borders ILLEGALLY. The inscription is not in our constitution. Obama gave back the bust of Winston Churchill that was in the Whitehouse, a hero of World War II? I was just thinking the other day that perhaps we should give back the Statute of Liberty to France as they are a very open border country allowing criminals in and full of socialists.
Are you all not reading all your own hate here? The Bible says welcome and embrace the stranger. How sad humanity has become here in this city!
ReplyDeleteIt is all our governments fault! Blame them for not having our laws enforced to begin with! Don't blame the strangers from another land, it is OUR very own governments fault for all these problems now!
ReplyDeleteHate? Try asking them to quiet down their nightly drunken parties and you'll get a disrespectful response ( in English) its a living hell to be a citizen living near this when ones own father fought to keep the US safe.
ReplyDelete8:10pm how arrogant, exactly the attitude causing problems on the world stage. How many turks are you housing? Like that latest mall shooter. Think you're the one feeling superior. Don't be naive, no one needs more problems. Those you embrace hate you.
ReplyDeleteHow sad we can no longer state facts without being accused of HATE by some petulant college girl who wouldn't last five minutes in our grubby streets.
ReplyDelete"It's all our government's fault" spoken like a two time Obama voter.
ReplyDeleteThere's a chemical product at home depot in the insecticide Isle that is in Spanish and not a word in English. I don't understand how and why HD has approved this. It blows my mind
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