It's very much painted here as an abandonment of one's culture in favour of being Capital-A American. I'm not sure how true that is, of course; I have no objectivity on this.
This tends to be what gets pointed to every time some asshat says that English is the language of God and America, and all those Mexicans ought to learn to speak it, though: that it's only one person expressing a private, widely-held expectation.
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Date: 2007-02-05 03:31 am (UTC)This tends to be what gets pointed to every time some asshat says that English is the language of God and America, and all those Mexicans ought to learn to speak it, though: that it's only one person expressing a private, widely-held expectation.