it was recorded over the past week by Latin pop stars including Ivy Queen, Gloria Trevi, Carlos Ponce, Tito "El Bambino," Olga Tanon and the group Aventura.

Shouldn't all the people who come up with the national anthem be from that nation?

I'm not trying to make Canada a new anthem.

F_U_C_K_E_R_S

/was never anti-immigrant
//is fast becoming

so what? seriously. They're trying to honor the United States and it's principles - let them do it in their native tongue.

Sumpinlikedat

where exactly in TFA does it say that? I cannot find any claim of that. I hear a reference to right wing shills screaming about it being "the illegal immigrant anthem"

as if there aren't any LEGAL spanish speaking immigrants.


/as much as i dislike spanish linguistically get a farking grip people - we're 300 million people, expect some linguistic diversity
//Want to really stop illegal immigration? put pressure on the mexican government to be less corrupt and help them develop an economy!

seriously people who are all up in arms over them singing the farking anthem in another language

SO THE fark WHAT

seriously. so the fark what.

MSNBC includes reference to the rap he was talking about

it's probably inappropriate - but it's also not in the version being released today.

Kazan: They're trying to honor the United States and it's principles - let them do it in their native tongue.

On our soil?

This comes down to the whole "If you come to my country, learn the language argument".

I'm not going to move to France and tell them all to learn English...

Jesus, how hard is it for people to understand this?
How much money do we spend on translating documents for 150 languages? Where do you draw the line? I'll tell you where....nowhere. It's one of those equations where appeasement approaches infinity when immigrants demand the US bend to THEIR culture. It's bad enough the directions to my DVD player comes in 8 languages, where every instruction takes twice as long to read because you have to find the English portion. What are you gonna do...print "Stop" 8 times on a stop sign, once for each dominant language.
It's a lose-lose situation.

Just make the national language English and put an end to the madness.

/end rant

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is one thing, argue the skeptics, but translating the words sends the opposite message: We are not Americans.

I was gonna say having people that aren't American citizens singing on it gave that message, but I guess language is more important.

Colour... uh oh, now I'm British!

Kazan: seriously people who are all up in arms over them singing the farking anthem in another language

SO THE fark WHAT

seriously. so the fark what.

YOu wanna KNOW WHY? It's an identity thing. Americans born here grew up speaking English. When you modify the culture WE were born with, to appease a foreign culture, it pretty much pisses on your culture.The national anthem is representative of that insult to the highest order.

Bonkthat_Again

The United States doesn't _have_ an official language. I think they should learn english, but I have no objections to translating the anthem into spanish (or german, or french, or italian, or russian, or japenese) if it's a faithful translation as the version being released today is

I'm not going to move to France and tell them all to learn English...

Most Europeans know english anyway - all the germans, swiss, and austrians i met anyway. Once they detected my accident on my german they would switch to english (i kept speaking german to them until they switched back.


The directions to your DVD player come in eight languages because of the places to which it is shipped.

Seriously your argument went from stupid to almost racism when you started biatching about DVD player instructions

Deutsch Luft = German Air

99 Air Ballons
Neunundneunzig Luftballons

ArcadianRefugee: Well, since the U.S. doesn't have an official language, and one of its major territories is Spanish-speaking (Puerto Rico ring a bell?) I do not see your point, other than as misguided xenophobia.

That's bullshiat. 95% of the 30 somethings in this country weren't exposed to another language in the school system until high school. Don't tell me English isn't the 'Official' language. Look at my rant above. I ask again. Where does the line get drawn? Do we sing the national anthem in English, then Spanish, then Haitian, then Japanese, then French, then ebonics? or do we just sing it in English?

mediaho
It's been said before but ridiculously huge fines for companies hiring illegals is the answer.

Yup - behaving racistly and getting all offended by translating the national anthem is not the answer.

Fining US companies that hire illegals knowingly, and putting pressure on mexico to actually stop being corrupt bastards and develop an economy.