Ignorance: The Latin American And Spanish Speaking Community

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negative attention that has been drawn to the Latin American and Spanish speaking community. There is also this problem of blatant ignorance when it comes to the relationship many Americans have with the Hispanic community. Many making the choice to be intentionally ignorant to many of the things that go on around them on a daily basis. This is why certain people get so frustrated when they encounter someone in the U.S. that does not speak their language or does not have the same cultural norms as they do. So many uneducated white Americans use the phrase “they are stealing our jobs” so often yet really fail at explaining what they mean when they say that phrase, and if they believe they are so much superior how could a person of less capability

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