So where are the signs?
So, the protester with the misspelled sign made me remember I meant to post on this.
The Baltimore Sun reported on Monday on a Hebrew-speaking enclave in Maryland.
When he moved to that slice of Rockville 11 years ago, Mushkat found a neighborhood that was home to so many Israelis that residents have adopted Hebrew names for one sprawling apartment complex and the adjacent neighborhood. Children talk in Hebrew on the playground, supermarket chains carry Israeli food products, and more than 100 youths show up every Sunday to participate - in Hebrew only - in the Israeli Scouts. Some call the area "Little Israel."
"We consider it like living in Israel, but in the United States," said Mushkat, who founded the Israeli Business Network of Washington, a membership group made up largely of Israelis who live in Rockville....
Once he leaves the office, Izik Balely - who moved to the area in 2005 to work at an Israeli-owned satellite communications company - speaks Hebrew almost exclusively. "It makes me feel like I'm back in Israel," said Balely, 43. "Sometimes I forget that I live in the U.S."
That's cool and all, but where are the "You're in America: speak English" brigades?
Or could it be that, well, only some non-English speakers are to be chased out?
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