A letter writer recounts how he "accidentally" bought the Spanish version of the DVD "A Knight's Tale" and then goes on to condemn our accommodation of non-English-speaking people in this country ("Feliz Navidad," Jan.5).
He talks about how our forefathers learned English on their own. He overlooks the reality of their lives as immigrants.
My grandfather came here from Poland in 1910. He did learn enough English to work the mines and raise five children. But he settled in a Polish community. If DVDs in Polish had been available at that time, he probably would have bought them.
It is a revisionist myth to think immigrants stepped off the boat quoting Shakespeare. It was their children and grandchildren who learned English well enough to prosper.
Immigrants endured the fire of opposition by the red-blooded Americans of their day so that we could become the red-blooded Americans of today. We should be more sympathetic.
As a side note, since the Spanish packaging of this movie is labeled "Corazon de Caballero" and the package notes seem to be in Spanish, it would be a large accident for an "American" to carry it to the checkout.
