Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Gino's Cheese Steaks with a side of truth

Watching CNN or Fox news or one of those news channels, I cant remember off the top of my head I saw a great piece on how Ginos Cheese Steaks in South Philly is making all customers order in english only. Of course the city of philidelphia is charging them with discrimination based on nationallity or ethnic background. The owner of Gino's whose name escapes me made a great point that is more often than not overlooked, why does bilingual mean english spanish. He pointed out the fact that the germans, italians, irish etc were not given special privelige when they came to this country, they learned the language to assimilate or else they got nowhere. He like myself doesnt see why we are affording this immigrant group rights unparalleled to any other group in the history of the world. THis is still true today, you need to learn the english language to get ahead or else you can count on that nice 5 dollar an hour day labor job for the long haul and if that is the land of oppurtunity that the immigrants who dont want to speak the language then they are better off gone.

As for the owner, he made another great point "How hard is it to learn how ot say cheesesteak?"

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