Monday, August 8, 2005, 12:42:56 AM, Mike Geary wrote: MG> Yost the Host: >> You should take a tour of New York City's lovely Bronx. Our "Little >> Colombia" alone has hundreds of thousands who cannot read English. MG> So? I don't understand your problem with that. I still don't really understand the situation -- hence my question to Eric >>>OK I give in, I admit ignorance. Why don't they speak English? which I'll rephrase. I meant "why (how come) they *can't* speak English" but I'll add "read". Is New York so segregated that people (other than old-fashioned stay-at-home-mainly not-born-here considerably-older Muslim women) can actually live there, as opposed to visiting, and cope without knowing English? And what about US citizenship policies (knowledge of the Constitution etc.; we've brought some of that stuff in)? -- mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html