…I voted for Arnold.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Latino immigrants who want to learn English more quickly should avoid Spanish-language media.

“You’ve got to turn off the Spanish television set,” Schwarzenegger said at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention in San Jose on Wednesday.

“It’s that simple. You’ve got to learn English. I know this sounds odd and this is the politically incorrect thing to say and I’m going to get myself in trouble. But I know that when I came to this country, I very rarely spoke German to anyone.”

Well, I suppose one runs into a lot more German speakers than Austrian speakers here in America, but the Governator’s point is well taken.

Too many immigrants, especially among Latinos and to some extent Chinese, unfortunately, are too lazy (a real shame on Latinos as learning English from Spanish is a lot easier than learning English from most other foreign languages) or aren’t interested enough in assimilating into the U.S. population as Americans to put any serious work into learning English, and instead they bury themselves in like-minded communities. These people are definitely not worthy of U.S. citizenship, in my book. My maternal grandparents, who arrived in America from eastern Europe nearly 80 years ago and met at night school in New York learning English, subsequently permitting only English to be spoken in their home, would agree with me whole-heartedly.