Spanish is not spoken here!
2019; Palgrave Macmillan; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1057/s41276-018-00171-x
ISSN1476-3443
Autores Tópico(s)Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
ResumoI am sure you have seen or heard about some of the acts of linguistic prejudice spotlighted recently in the news and on social media.Sometimes this feels like it is a new trend.But is it?The incident that has received the most attention is the case of a white lawyer, Aaron Schlossberg, filmed on May 2018, yelling at the employees of a restaurant in Manhattan for speaking Spanish to customers.He goes on to bark at their supervisor, "My guess is they're not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country.…They have the balls to come here and live off of my money?I pay for their welfare; I pay for their ability to be here.The least they could do, the least they could do is speak English" (https :// thehi ll.com/homen ews/news/38883 7-lawye r-who-threa tened -to-call-ice-on-spani shspeak ing-peopl e-i-am-not-racis t).Incidents like this appear on social media almost weekly, and the most vile cases make it to local and national news.A few months ago, in a restaurant in Virginia, a white woman accosted a family speaking in Spanish as they dined.She yelled, "Speak English!" and demanded to see their passports.She was eventually escorted out of the restaurant, as she screamed, "Go back to your fucking country, OK? Don't freeload on America" (https ://www.dailydot.com/irl/virgi nia-woman -haras singspani sh-speak ers/).More recently, in a Colorado grocery store, a white woman harassed two Mexican women for speaking Spanish to each other while they were shopping.She yelled, "You're in America.You're in my country.
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