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Home Front: Culture Wars
Working Class Americans: ‘Isolating' To Be the Only English Speaker on the Job
2018-08-08
[Breitbart] American workers in blue collar jobs are grappling with the "isolating" prospect that their workplaces are increasingly dominated by non-English speaking foreigners.

In two reports over the last few weeks, white working class Americans chronicled and interviewed by the Washington Post and Humans of New York, revealed the gripping impact of mass immigration on the country’s workers.

The Washington Post report follows the story of 20-year-old Heaven Engle and 25-year-old Venson Heim, a couple who work at the Bell & Evans Plant 2 in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania.

The couple is outnumbered in the chicken processing plant as Spanish speakers primarily from the Dominican Republic make up the vast majority of their colleagues.

"It sucks when you can’t talk to no one," Heaven told the Washington Post.

"I would rather sit and talk. It would make the day go faster," she said.

After a work meeting, conducted primarily in Spanish, Heaven took a smoke break while all the other foreign workers went on a lunch break. She met her boyfriend, Venson, outside so the two would have each other to speak to.

"They don’t give a rat’s ass about people with white skin," Venson told her about the work meeting, as described by the Washington Post.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  It's all fun, till a safety issue bites someone in the ass.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-08 18:08  

#7  "It sucks when you can’t talk to no one," Heaven told the Washington Post.

Most of the time, it's a blessing.
Posted by: Raj   2018-08-08 12:55  

#6  There were times that I was the only person speaking English in the Company break room. After a time it was easier to just bring a paperback and ignore everyone else in the room...
Posted by: magpie   2018-08-08 11:51  

#5  The workers that are there Illegally push the gringo's out. Been going on for decades
Posted by: ranture   2018-08-08 11:00  

#4  ...they're watching Univision.
Posted by: Procopius   2018-08-08 08:13  

#3  Back in the early part of the 20th century immigrants couldn't really survive without speaking English, and it was considered impolite to speak a foreign language in public.

Where are the night schools to teach the new-comers what they need to know?
Posted by: AlanC   2018-08-08 08:06  

#2  We've created this Tower if Babel (or is it Babble?) via our insane quest for diversity and multiculturalism. We no longer push assimilation and one language. It is culture destroying.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-08-08 07:30  

#1  "It sucks when you can’t talk to no one," Heaven told the Washington Post.

The gov't doesn't care about your ability to converse with fellow workers. The employer pays the withholding taxes. The Unions pay the gov't, and the wheels of the State/Fed tax and Social Security ponzi schemes roll on.

Welcome to the new reality. Not actually a 'new reality' however. It's been going on for decades, with the tacit approval of a our gov't.

Looking for a trade school or apprentice program for your son or daughter? Sorry, trade schools are expensive and apprentice programs take years. We've got an endless supply of low paid brick layers and carpenters. Try the healthcare industry..... oh wait.

Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-08 06:56  

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