Basically what I said about race about: The country reflects a need for Spanish.
But the LOUDER part of the country, although not the larger one, is all "WE SPEAK AMERICAN!" There is an ever-growing and frightening movement to make English the official language of the US, thereby meaning that interpreters for ANY language, Spanish included, would be unnecessary. It would destroy our boarders and our culture to do so, but the movement is there and growing.
So, yeah. There is a vocal, and not small, group of people in the government and in the general populace who are going "SPANISH ISN'T A REAL LANGUAGE HERE IN AMERICA". Whereas the majority who see the need are much quieter and much more sane. And guess which faction gets the coverage overseas?
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But the LOUDER part of the country, although not the larger one, is all "WE SPEAK AMERICAN!" There is an ever-growing and frightening movement to make English the official language of the US, thereby meaning that interpreters for ANY language, Spanish included, would be unnecessary. It would destroy our boarders and our culture to do so, but the movement is there and growing.
So, yeah. There is a vocal, and not small, group of people in the government and in the general populace who are going "SPANISH ISN'T A REAL LANGUAGE HERE IN AMERICA". Whereas the majority who see the need are much quieter and much more sane. And guess which faction gets the coverage overseas?