Originally Posted By: harleykwin
One can be proud of their culture and still be proud to be an American citizen - the two are not mutually exclusive.


There's a difference between being proud of one's culture and outright shoving it down other peoples' throats; I'm sure you're proud of being Puerto Rican *cough*Godknowswhy*cough* but your family wasn't arrogant enough to not think it important to learn English. I had to work in Garden Grove, CA for a long time and it's basically the Asian capital of Orange County. Every other Asian I met on the job was an immigrant who refused to speak English. The reason they were able to get away with it is because all of my supervisors were smart enough to learn English themselves.

On a sidenote: A pattern I noticed is that the bulk of the people who refused to learn, and didn't really give a crap if I understood them or not, were Chinese and Vietnamese. The Koreans, Japanese, Tai, Phillipinos, and Taiwanese were all much more respectful to me on average; haven't met a lot of people from Laos or Cambodia, so I can't comment.