Should the "Star Spangled Banner" be sung in Spanish?
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No 11% (165 votes) Yes 88% (1334 votes) Undecided 1% (18 votes) Total votes: 1517 |
How bout the star spanglish banner? Personally, I don't care so much about anthems. It's just a symbol, like a flag or a lapel pin. And the purpose of such a symbol is to elicit pride and patriotism.
The Spanish version is not required but they definitely have the freedom to do whatever they want with it.
Since we are a melting pot, there is no ethnic identity. It's all about culture, and throughout history it has never been 100% english.
Is it not plain xenophobic to claim that the national anthem should only be sung in English?
After all even the USofA State Department offers not just one, but THREE versions of the USofA national anthem in Spanish.
http://usinfo.state.gov/esp/home/topics/us_society_values/national_symbo...
Here is one of them:
LA BANDERA ESTRELLADA
Traducción al castellano de Guillermo F. Hall, [de Guatemala].
Oh, decid: ¿podeis ver, al rayar de la aurora lo
Que vimos anoche orgullosos flotar?
La estrellada bandera, tremolando altanera, encumbrada en
La torre y excitando luchar!
Y a la luz de la roja, fulgurante centella, la
Bandera ondeaba, ondeaba más bella;
Y a través de la densa humareda inflamada,
Con qué orgullo miramos la bandera ondear!
¡El pendón de la Patria, la bandera estrellada,
Encumbrada en la almena convidando a luchar!
Oh! decid, ¿todavía contemplais la bandera,
La estrellada bandera,
Sobre suelo de libres que defienden su hogar?
A través de la niebla, de la mar a la orilla
Iracundo enemigo nos atisba a marchar.
¿Qué es aquello que ondula, que flamea y simula
Un enjambre de estrellas refulgiendo en el mar?
Ya del alba recoge la primer llamarada;
Ya se oculta en la niebla, ya aparece inflamada;
Ya ostentando sus glorias se refleja en el río;
Ya sus franjas y estrellas nos deslumbran al par.
¡El pendón de la Patria, tremolando bravio
Y flamenado en la almena nos incita a luchar!
¡El pendón de la Patria, la estrellada bandera,
Tremolando altanera
Sobre suelo de libres que defienden su hogar!
¿Dónde está la falange enemiga y aleve
Que con vana porfía se atreviera a jurar
Que al fragor de la guerra, en la lucha que aterra,
Perderíamos patria y familia y hogar?
¡Con su sangre lavara la verguenza inferida
De su paso a la hulla por la tierra querida!
Encontrar no podría un refugio el taimado,
Que en su fuga oprobiosa la pudiera salvar
Del terror de esa fuga, del morir angustiado
Con el ansia del triunfo que no pudo alcanzar.
Mientras tanto tremola la estrellada bandera
Y triunfante, altanera,
Sobre suelo de libres nos custodia el hogar
Siempre así, cuando altivo se levante el patriota
Defendiendo su suelo, su familia y su hogar,
La radiante victoria lo circunde de gloria,
¡Y bendiga al Eterno que lo hiciera triunfar!
Y pues Dios nos asiste y la lucha es tan santa,
Y el pendón de la Patria nos alienta y levanta,
Conservemos la Patria, el hogar que adoramos,
Y adoptamos por lema, sacrosanto y sin par:
¡"Sea Dios nuestro guía; en su apoyo confiamos!"
¡Justiciera es la causa que nos manda a luchar,
Y el pendón de la Patria, la estrellada bandera,
Tremolando altanera,
Sobre suelo de libres nos conserve el hogar!
Any person, or any institution, claiming to value cultural diversity and simultaneously either explicitly, or implicitly using tactics intended to exclude other languages, (such as so called "English only" rules), is at best guilty of hypocrisy. Language, literature and culture are so closely intertwined that one cannot reject one of them, while claiming to accept the other.
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Never!
The "Star Spangled Banner" is a piece of our American culture and it should be kept the way it is, SIMPLEMENTE EN INGLES!!. It is our tradition. The United States is a melting pot. Different cultures come together and become closer in this country because we all speak English, have learned to speak it, or are in the process of learning it.
Sure Canada has its anthem in English and French. That's beccause those are both their primary and official language. English is our one and only primary language!
All languages are welcomed in this country. But also for example, if every nationality stuck to their own language, there would not be any bonding. What makes this country unique is because so many different nationalities speak the same language, English!
If this is an attempt for immigrants who have not learned to speak English in order for them to appreciate USA, then why not have the anthem in all languages? Last time I checked, not all immigrants are Hispanic.
Until then Kidron and Ponce, adios you c*nts!