We have all been offered bilingual customer service and manuals for decades now, but after Florida Senator Marco Rubio delivered his rebuttal to the State of the Union speech in both English and Spanish, I was convinced that we have turned a corner. If a Republican presidential hopeful can get away, or even be admired by his Teabagger supporters, with speaking a non-English language, we might have come to finally realize that with tens of millions Spanish speakers in the country already and an estimated 50 million Spanish speakers expected to arrive during the next 10-15 years, we might as well accept the fact that like The Netherlands or Belgium or Austria or India, we are fast becoming a nation where speaking just one language will be a taboo rather than a badge of honor.
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