<p>I have to decide by sunday and it's all up for grabs. I was wondering if anyone could say what they think and why? I'm not very good with languages but I'm willing to work hard for an decent grade.Thanx!</p>
<p>spanish.</p>
<p>if ur not spanish or chinese.</p>
<p>spanish, way more useful in life. unless of course you're moving to China.</p>
<p>spanish, way more useful in life. unless of course you're moving to China.</p>
<p>That's a pretty ignorant thing to say. With China quickly taking a place among the "super economies" of the world, it is increasingly important for companies and businesses to have employees that can speak Chinese (particularly mandarin). True, spanish may be more useful in the US, but think about the long term effects of what you do. Spanish is WAY easier than Chinese, so keep that in mind too when you make a decision.</p>
<p>jamesford, maybe it's important to have companies have a few employees speaking chinese, but it is WAY more needed to have employees speaking spanish seeing as our country is about 40% hispanic. (made up guessing number)</p>
<p>Spanish is easier to learn. Chinese will probably be more useful in the future.</p>
<p>Courtney is WRONGGG. The US is approximately 12.9% Hispanic.</p>
<p>I'd say if you're not into international, particularly Asian business or moving to China, go with Spanish.</p>
<p>wishyouwerehere, are you kidding me?</p>
<p>the hispanic population is continuously rising, at its like 40 percent already. if anything we need 2 percent of the american population to speak chinese because most of the chinese traders ARE able to speak english. so how is chinese going to be more useful in the future?</p>
<p>jonathan stop being disrespectful. pssssshhhhh. :)</p>
<p>Shhhh.... you're going to get me banned.</p>
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The U.S. population's racial distribution in 2006 was as follows:[12]</p>
<p>White alone (including people of Middle Eastern background): 73.9% or 221.3 million
Black or African American alone: 12.2% or 37.1 million
Asian alone: 4.4% or 13.1 million
American Indian or Alaska Native alone: 0.8% or 2.4 million
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander alone: 0.14% or 0.43 million
Some other race alone: 6.3% or 19.0 million
Two or more races: 2.0% or 6.1 million[13]
Each of the above categories includes people who identify their ethnicity as Hispanic or Latino.[14] U.S. federal law defines Hispanic or Latino as any person with ancestry from a Spanish-speaking Latin American country or Spain, regardless of race.[15]</p>
<p>Hispanic or Latino of any race: 14.8% or about 44.3 million.[16]
White Hispanic - 23,154,516
Black Hispanic - 616,953
American Indian and Alaska Native - 333,880
Asian Hispanic - 154,694
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander - 38,964
Some other race - 18,238,347
Two or more races - 1,714,924
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<p>It's not even close to 40%.. but it is rapidly growing, which I didn't deny. Sooo.. </p>
<p>Me: +5
You: -2 for lack of evidence</p>
<p>I thought you did debate???</p>
<p>EXACTLY! the point is, we still have 13.1 million asians, which means AT LEAST
one million must be fluent in Chinese. we only need about 100k people able to speak chinese to communicate with those Chinese who can't speak english. however, most chinese in the economic industry are able to speak english, and if not, we still have 13.1 million asians some of which ARE able to speak chinese. now we have the 44.3 MILLION! hispanics that is almost 4 times as many asians. the spanish population is growing way more rapidly for the mere reason that there are more of them to reproduce. seeing as the spanish make up 44 million of our US population, it is more demanding that people speak spanish over chinese.</p>
<p>ps. your evidence is from 2 years ago.</p>
<p>yeah but if you take chinese it will take a long. time. for u to be able to even start to "communicate" with those fluent</p>
<p>Guys. English is the lingua franca anyway.</p>
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I thought you did debate???
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<p>pwned!</p>
<p>go with spanish.</p>
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if anything we need 2 percent of the american population to speak chinese
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we only need about 100k people able to speak chinese
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<p>Just thirty minutes later you changed your opinion....pick a stance and stick with it.</p>
<p>regardless of the number, its still a very small percent of our population.</p>
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i replied even though it was really weak..why are we arguing when we both think spanish is more important?
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<p>hahaha. jonathan, speaking the truth in a message.</p>
<p>I didn't say that. </p>
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Jonathan, you're so much better at debating than me. I think I'm just going to surrender...
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<p>COME UP WITH A REAL ARGUMENT.</p>