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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges don't care, but you're an idiot if you take a language that isn't Spanish.[/quote]

Disagree with the comment above.

There might well be good valid cultural reasons to choose - or to avoid - certain languages, purely as one example.

Ours will take Spanish. If we were in Canada, ours would take French. We do not have a compelling reason to pick French or German...but we respect that other families are different from ours. [/quote]

This is a USA-centered website.  Not Canadian.  I assumed I was addressing a USA audience.  In the USA, tens of millions speak Spanish.  In our hemisphere, hundreds of millions do.  It's silly to take any other language in the USA.[/quote]

Someone whose family fled a Latin American dictatorship and atrocity (no shortage of those in the last 100 years) to settle in the US would have every reason to avoid learning Spanish. Just like some cultural groups avoid learning German for similar reasons.  Someone whose family are Swiss German might choose German so they could better communicate with family members.  The best answer varies by each family's own situation. [/quote]

Stop being an ass.  Latin Americans are proud people.  They're proud of their culture, traditions, and language.  I've never in my life heard of a Latin American family who moved to the United States who were so traumatized by their experience under a dictatorship that they had an aversion to their children learning Spanish.  That is utterly ridiculous.

What I HAVE heard of and known first hand are Latin American families who moved to the USA and were so determined that the family assimilate that they insisted that their children only speak English and not learn or use Spanish.  That does not happen nearly as much today as it has in the past, thankfully.

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