UK, Ireland /
English teenager refused service at Polish shop [87]
A couple years ago in Philadelphia a sandwich takeout shopkeeper posted a sign that read
“This is America, please speak English when ordering” as a protest of all the Mexicans that come here and expect everyone to accommodate their lazy lack of effort to learn our native language. He didn’t deny anyone service but the PCers went ballistic anyway. The City Council threatened to bring against him some trumped-up charges about ethnic intimidation or some such.
The guy and his shop and sign became a rallying cry for similar minded folks and he ended up winning the stare-down against the power-abusing PCers. He reasoned that he himself was the son of immigrants who elected to learn English upon arriving on our shores. Tough to argue against that.
Now everyone who comes and orders a sandwich gets a free bumper sticker with the slogan
“This is America, speak English” on it. They are quite popular, much to the chagrin of the PCers. I’ve got one on my car.
Moral of the story: Decent people are sick and tired of having all this PC BS forced on them and being expected to bend over backward and accommodate lazy foreigners who come here and disrespect our culture. It is a simple choice between accommodation and assimilation. And those who elect to go to another land should be the ones to alter their ways and assimilate. And attempting to speak the native language is the most basic way of assimilating.
