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                                                <h1>Foreign language policy stirs debate - WHAT YOU'RE SAYING: June 18</h1>
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                                        <p class="">Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013</p>
                                        
                                        
                                        








                                        


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                            <p>Whole Foods announced it revised its 
employee language policy after a controversy erupted when two 
Spanish-speaking Albuquerque employees were suspended a day for 
protesting the English-only speaking rule. What do you think?<br><br>This is America last time I checked and we do still speak English here, right?<br><br>--Melanie Corp<br><br>My
 wife is an immigrant and English is her second language.I say there is 
nothing wrong with Whole Foods telling their employees to speak English.<br><br>--Brandon LaVigne<br><br>If
 you are in the company of English speakers, don't eliminate half of 
them by switching to Spanish. It's rude. I live less than 100 miles from
 the border, and we don't do it here. It's America, people don't come 
here expecting to speak Spanish. There are some accommodations but save 
your hate for somewhere else. Like Detroit maybe.<br><br>--Lori Samples Tworek<br><br>Speaking
 in a language that isn't understood by all those who are present is 
like whispering and talking behind the backs of others. Even if it isn't
 meant to be rude, it can be perceived to be. I don't see a problem with
 this rule if it's used to keep harmony in the workplace. The only 
"rights" it tramples on is the right to be rude, and you can do that on 
your own time.<br><br>--Susan Campbell<br><br>My grandfather learned 
English in a year after moving here from Canada. He rarely spoke French 
after that, considering it rude to exclude people who couldn't 
understand it. Why do other people have an issue with this?   </p>

                                                    
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                                                                                                <p>--Christine Page<br><br>And we 
wonder why the rest of the world hates us, and no, it is not because we 
are awesome. It's because we are ignorant and narrow-minded.<br><br>--Yvonne Whiteley <br></p><p><a href="http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/06/18/opinion/doc51bf73d0364f5214023756.txt?viewmode=fullstory">http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/06/18/opinion/doc51bf73d0364f5214023756.txt?viewmode=fullstory</a><br>
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