(05/20/10) "AP-Univision Poll: Hispanic discrimination high" (by Alan Fram, Associated Press)

[foxyladi]

yes indeed Hispanic discrimination is very high..
didn't need a poll to find that out

[Suzan]

Originally Posted by Hali436

Almost every single thread posted on this forum that ends up this way has one single common ingredient over and over again. Sad.

I'd love to see at least one poster named in each mod warning instead of it being generic. It's like telling your child to stop doing something again and again as you sit watching him/her do it.

Mod Note: It takes TWO people to fight. Someone starts it and the other person engages. At that point they're both responsible. If the second person doesn't engage, there is no fight and only the first person is responsible, as long as some violation of forum policy has occurred.

The best approach is to ignore other members whose comments irritate you. We also have an Ignore button that works pretty well. If the member is violating forum policy, report it to the moderators. Thanks.

[devildog]

From the article:

Matilde Martinez, 59, a Puerto Rican-born New Yorker, said she believes Mexican immigrants face much mistreatment.

"It causes me a lot of pain," she said in an INTERVIEW CONDUCTED IN SPANISH. "These people come to work and they do work that the Americans won't do for the little pay they get.".

Perhaps if Matilde Martinez and many other immigrants learned to speak English (like my stepmother did after coming to this country 25 years ago), the manner in which they're treated would be more amicable. At first, like many of those who've moved to this country, my mother's speech was difficult to understand, but she learned the language because it enabled her to better interact with her new stepchildren, fellow citizens, get a job, and go to nursing school.

Immigrants must/should feel free to maintain their cultural identity, but also realize that English is the defacto language of this country. By not learning to speak the language, they're unwittingly fueling preconception and prejudice against themselves.

[mack20]

Originally Posted by cinnamongirl

Perhaps we should do our own little experiment in this forum to help calm things down. Any posters who have snuck back across the "border" with fake info should be banned. That should satisfy our border-obsessed folks, right?

It would help us stop illegal immigration in our own little way.

That would be quite the experiment.