My spanish is horrible. It is so bad that I generally tell a person that I don't speak or understand Spanish. It saves me the headache of getting myself in to deep.

Well, last year, I went to a house to fix their phone jacks. They were Spanish speaking. I told the guy that I didn't speak Spanish and went on to fix the jacks. He said to his friend while smiling to my face (in Spanish) "They send this stupid white b!t@h to fix my phone that can't even speak Spanish." They carried on saying all kinds of degrading things about me in Spanish. I was fuming so bad. I so wanted to tell him that he needs to learn better English; I don't need to learn better Spanish. I kept my mouth shut, but boy was it hard!

I think that it should be a requirement to know our language before you come here. I have met plenty of people that wanted to come to the US so bad, so they studied the American language and culture. That is how it should be. You should want to know about the place you are coming to. I understand that there are special circumstances that make that impossible, but I think for the most part, everyone is capable of learning English.