Fabian Sticks up for Arnold on Spanish TV
Add Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez to the chorus of those defending Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for making the common-sense observation that watching Spanish TV is no way to learn English:
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, told reporters yesterday that Schwarzenegger's view is shared by many first-generation immigrants, including about a third of the speaker's relatives.“First-generation immigrants, when they come here, they either want you to speak your language and to keep you real close to your customs or they want you to totally assimilate because they don't want anyone to discriminate,” Núñez said.
“And Governor Schwarzenegger, I think, is simply expressing as a first-generation immigrant a belief that is prevalent among first-generation immigrants – it's the truth,” he said.