Originally Posted by LUVMBDiesels

Hey it is all over. I think Lowes started the bilingual signs. Lately I have seen them putting the Spanish on top in BIG er GRANDE letters and the english on the botton en letras muy pequeñas...

Yes It is a problem and no I don't know what to do about it.

True story... My Great grandfather came from'a de old country (Italy).
He got here, said I am American now learned English and never spoke Italian again! Heck, he even voted REPUBLICAN!

To him and his generation, shedding anything that was not "American" was good.. Standing out was bad. The melting pot was hot and did it's job.

Today it is all about keeping your culture 'pure'.
I did not see it but I gather ther is even an Absolut ad out there talking about the reconquista of the South West USA by Mexico!

However, it is not just Latinos doing this. In NY there is a sizable Hatian population where I used to live. They insisted on everything being written in Creole! In the jewish neighborhoods everyting even the bumper stickers are in Hebrew or Yiddish. I think this is all an offshoot of the last fourty years of divide and conquer politics. Instead of thinking how Americans are alike (we are the people who had the gumption to leave our homes and cross the ocean, we all believe in democracy, freedoms, etc) we are focused on how we are different.

Isn't this how Rome went under?