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From: das@ucla-cs.ARPA (David Smallberg)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: English language requirement
Message-ID: <10026@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 02:17:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 02:17:57 1986
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True story:

  [Background:  The city of Monterey Park is a suburb of Los Angeles, about
   5 miles east of downtown.  Until about ten years ago, it was mostly white
   with a substantial Latino community.  It now has a large Asian community,
   mostly Chinese.  Many business signs are in Chinese, which seems to bother
   long-time residents.]

  The Monterey Park city council just passed a law requiring all businesses to
have a sign posted stating the type of the business in the English language.
As it turns out, only six percent of the businesses in the city don't already
do this.  Most of that 6% are named Arco, Shell, Albertson's, Newberry's, ...

-- David Smallberg, das@locus.ucla.edu, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das