Then let's talk about everyone else learning English. My mother came here from Italy and she learned to speak English. Her ire had been roused because of her difficulty communicating with a Spanish-speaking customer seeking to purchase money orders. Hers is the knee-jerk bureaucratic response to change. One hears a lot of that these days in Reading, which saw its Hispanic population explode to almost a third of the city's.
Good businesses see that as an opportunity ripe for the plucking.
A plodding, protected monopoly, which the post office is, views it as a problem. The most exciting news coming out of the 2001 Census is that the American population is even more diverse than demographers had predicted. Already in California, non Hispanic whites are no longer a majority in the state. Hispanics constitute almost a third of the state's population. Whites are not even a majority in Boston, Mass., the largest city in a state in which as recently as 1990, whites accounted for 90 percent of the residents.