{"id":49806,"date":"2021-12-03T22:12:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49806"},"modified":"2021-12-03T22:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:12:36","slug":"forgive-this-rant-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49806","title":{"rendered":"Forgive this rant, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Immigration-Law.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34323\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Immigration-Law-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Immigration-Law-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Immigration-Law-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Immigration-Law-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Immigration-Law.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I am among the most liberated, enlightened progressive individuals any of you ever will know.<\/p>\n<p>That all said, I want to express a concern I have about this \u201cmelting pot\u201d society we embrace as Americans. It involves retailers and the staffers they hire to interact with the public.<\/p>\n<p>I ventured the other day into a major retail outlet in the North Texas city where I live. I was looking for a particular item. I approached a woman wearing the colors of the store I entered and asked her where the item was that I needed to purchase.<\/p>\n<p>She had no idea what I had asked of her. She threw up her hands in that gesture that told me:\u00a0<em>I do not speak your language; therefore, I am of no help at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, my.<\/p>\n<p>I trudged off looking for the item. I found it. I purchased it. I went home.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my point.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a community where English is the predominant language. You can walk into any public place in the United States and the vast majority of those gathered there speak English.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I want to make a request of retailers. I believe they should deploy English-speaking staffers to jobs where they must interact with the public. I totally favor hiring non-English speakers, giving them a chance to earn a decent living. I am not going to take the nativist tone we hear too often.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be able to\u00a0<em>communicate<\/em>\u00a0with individuals who are employed by retail outlets where I do business. Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n<p>There. My rant is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am among the most liberated, enlightened progressive individuals any of you ever will know. That all said, I want to express a concern I have about this \u201cmelting pot\u201d society we embrace as Americans. It involves retailers and the staffers they hire to interact with the public. I ventured the other day into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forgive this rant, but &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2245],"class_list":["post-49806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49807,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49806\/revisions\/49807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}