It is common practice to recommend watching english channels for those who want to learn English.

I have never heard of any students accusing teachers of being racist for recommending TV as a tool to help learn our language. It is very useful, even cartoons for beginners.

I use PBS and CNN documentaries to boost listening, vocabulary, and language abilities on a regular basis.

Too bad many Hispanic leaders consider learning and using English in America a betrayel of their cultural.  If the act of learning English to become a part of America is all it takes to lose your cultural, then I suggest your cultural roots were never very deep, nor do you know anything about who you are/or were in the first place.  I am from Latin (and a few other culturals, as most Americans are from the past, when assimilation was seen as a positive act, and learning English in America a Patriotic act), but I am first of all an American, so I choose to believe that English is my first language and being American my social background. If you ask me what I am, I answer quite simply, an American. The fact that I am from Hispanic roots doesn't make me want to deny my love for the American flag, my love for this great country that gave me the freedom to chose my beliefs, earn a college degree or two, rise as far as I have, and know that America is the best country in the world. If you define yourself and your cultural by clinging to a country that has crooked leaders, rampant poverty, drug lords that rule the country and people who refuse to fight for change, then I guess you should not be in America.  These people need to go home to the great country and save their Mexican language and their precious culture, and leave America alone. We didn't ask you to come here and try to change America in Mexico. I speak some Spanish, but I don't care to watch Spanish broadcasts, or improve my Spanish to live in America.  America is an English Speaking country, and I want it to stay that way, and hope it never becomes like Mexico.

One more thing, I too taught ESL classes to Spanish speaking workers because their company was trying to give them a chance to move up in American society, most of them dropped out and said they did not want to learn English, they felt we (Americans) should learn Spanish if we wanted to deal with them professionally.  I think America is making a big mistake changing our California into an extension of Mexico.  I went to Japan to teach English, and belive me, they aren't learning English to change their country into an English Speaking country, they learn it for business. It was I who had to learn a new language in Japan. If I wanted to live and interact with society in Japan, I had to learn Japanese. I am now semi-fluent in Japanese.  They don't have English Speaking Stations in Japan, just CNN at times. As a teacher, I think we are doing a deserves to the Mexican immigrants for not forcing them to learn English. Hai, so des. Eiego, utskushi. Arigato. Translation? Yes, that is so, English is beautiful, thank you. And finally, the Spanish speaking stations operating in America, should be forced to do public services announcements to teach illegal and legal new Spanish speaking immigrants how to be a good neighbor in America. I am getting tired of the rudeness these people seem to think is part of being in America. They feel it's their right to not obey traffic laws, not be good neighbor, and just ignore good plain, common politeness.  Total immersion works, that is why I learned Japanese and French.  The Governor is right....

El American Senor

Marylee and the Californian still don’t get it. It is not about language it is not about crime, and it is not about assimilation, it is about the” aliens” to our wonderful It seem that Hispanic and Hispanic immigrants like Arnold Schwarzenegger will never r be as good a the recent or former Germanic and other European immigrants who came to this country before it’s standards were lowered by the recent invasion. Germanic aliens from the north European universe have always been superior, from Chicago’s Dutch Shultz to German immigrant who built the quintessential template for WWII German prisons at Andersonville during our on civil war.

It does not matter whether these new aliens learn English or keep their Spanish, all that is irrelevant. Whether they watch Spanish television or English language television will not change their main handicap, they are Hispanic and as Hispanics in our America they are still from a foreign planet and not worth as some of our English language her like Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck and Our own Marylee remind us daily. But beware, the Mexican menace is not going to assimilate, they are attempting to make you assimilate to their culture, something we conservatives will avoid. We will never be caught advertising on a Spanish language, we will buy American fly first, and replace Tacos with Freedom wraps first.

No Governor Schwarzenegger is not a racist, like the honor killers of women in the Middle-East, Schwarzenegger is a victim of his Germanic superior European ancestry history, something we real conservative share with him. Great Guy!!

No, by any way you measure it. These Mexican aliens will never be as good as us, right, Marylee?

 And you are right Sam, no one will stand up for us racist who want to send these slave labor "aliens" back behind the Adobe Curtain, or as we oldtimers call it, the Gringo/Greaser Wall, right Sam.