From the Mouths of Babes

Walking out of church today, I overheard a cute blonde girl talking to her mother:

"Why does he speak Spanish?"

"Because that's what his mommy and daddy taught him."

Problem solved.

How much better the world would be if we could all see it that simply! Regardless of questions of documentation, how many immigrants should come to the US, and what they should be doing, the fact remains: learning a foreign language is hard. And while it's impractical to convert everything to Spanish or whatever language area immigrants speak, perhaps we could all be more patient and understanding if we remembered that the reason immigrants speak Spanish (or another language) is the same reason we Anglophones speak English: it's what our mommies and daddies taught us.