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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Learn Spanish to work in customer service with low income people. There are a lot of them, so this is very "practical".

Learn Mandarin or Russian to work at a 3 letter agency.

Honestly not everyone wants to work with the poor and not everyone wants to work at a 3 letter agency, so this debate can go on forever depending on your priors.[/quote]

Your racism and prejudices are showing.  Not all native Spanish speakers are either (1) poor or (2) living in the USA.  There are tremendous opportunities for Spanish speakers in dozens of countries in law, business, etc.  That you can actually communicate with Spanish speakers in the USA is a nice plus too.  [/quote]

Median Hispanic household wealth is like 63k compared to over 200k for non Hispanic whites; maybe lower middle class is more accurate than poor but the point stands. Not everyone wants to work retail with the general public.

As for opportunities abroad, you have to weigh those afforded by Spanish against those afforded by German, French, Mandarin, Arabic, etc. Those also have great business opportunities, so I don't see an obvious win for Spanish here either.[/quote]

You're truly an idiot.  I never said that the average Latino family in the US is lower than the average white family.  I said they're not all poor -- and they're not.  And what's the bullshit about "working retail with the general public?"  Don't lower income people need any other kind of assistance?

[b]I also never said that there aren't opportunities abroad for other languages.  I simply said there WERE such opportunities with Spanish, because you generalized all Spanish speakers as poor residents of the USA.  In fact, over 90 percent of native Spanish speakers live elsewhere.[/b]

The bottom line is that you're a racist and classist prick.  When you think "Spanish" you think of an uneducated janitor or the guy mowing your lawn.  And that is plain disgusting.  And, to be clear, being a janitor or mowing lawns isn't the disgusting thing.  YOU are.[/quote]

I won’t defend the PP’s comments about incomes but I find it extremely amusing that you have been so dismissive of all of the other rationales for learning other languages, including the bolded, and now you are trying to use them.[/quote]

If this is about "practicality" why are incomes irrelevant?[/quote]

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