Needless to say how complete racist and ignorant this is, how the hell is a tourist attraction going to make everyone order in English? So dumb..

Saying that immigrants should learn English because it will make their lives easier is one thing; English Only and making a language a requirement for patronizing a business is quite another.

Also, I’m pretty sure there was a time, not long after this man’s family immigrated from Italy, in which their English skills were seriously lacking and they too had to resort to using their native tongue to communicate. The same is such with the recently arrived Latino immigrants. During that time, there was all kinds of anti-Italian sentiment, much like the anti-Latino sentiment of today. Sounds like hypocrisy to me.

I have to weigh in with Mr. Vento on his Speak English campaign. I doubt, actually, that he truly requires everyone to speak perfect English – he’s a businessman who wants to sell cheesesteaks. He’ll most likely still sell to anyone even the nearly incomprehensible. He’s making a statement regarding a “situation” that has been allowed to exist too long in this country. We are an English-speaking country. If you want to come here to live, you should learn to speak English as others should learn to speak French, or Spanish, or German if they go to live permanently in those countries. As has been pointed out more than once, I don’t see why Spanish-speaking immigrants should be singled out for this extra help. Why not the French, German, Indian, etc immigrants as well? Soon we’d be hitting numbers 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on on the telephone before we ever got to the English-speaking operator and the bi-lingual signs would be so large, they’d never be able to contain all the text of the original message. If he did take down the sign, what Mr. Vento might want to do, instead, is ask people to present a birth certificate, a passport or a green card when they order – and call the immigration authorities if they couldn’t produce one. Might mean the rest of us would have to carry a little extra paperwork around with us, but it would be worth the trouble.

LOL … I’m wonder when I learn myself English.

It’s his business after all so he decides what he does with it, no matter how offensive the sign is to some folks. I’ve lived in several countries and the U.S. is the only country where speaking a foreign language might be considered offensive or inferior. Most other countries consider billingualism an asset, being born outside the U.S. may be an advantage in this case since public schools here only teach English. ALmost every other developed country in the world includes foreign language education starting in elementary schools. I wonder what that says about “America”. I remember an argument I had with a fellow in Kent, He said that “Americans think that the world is flat and there is only one country on it” By the way the official name of the country is United States of America, “America” is the continent tha includes Canada, Chile and every other country in between where Engllish is not the official language. That’s my $.02

It is the height of rudeness to migrate to another another country and not show enough respect for that country to learn its language. When I moved to Germany for a while, I learned German. Hell, when I moved to New Orleans, I learned some Creole!

No one asked you to come here. The least you can do is have the courtesy to assimilate!

i think thats a load of crap!!! viva mexico