Damn, I keep forgetting about this.brimstoneSalad wrote: Assuming racism wasn't a factor, perhaps. [...]
And beyond the ability to grab a commission from sales, really you only need to convince the white non-Spanish speaker who is hiring you that you can speak enough Spanish to beat the other applicant.
Well then it may be immoral to learn Spanish instead of something else, because you're giving racists more room to discriminate against native Spanish speakers.
True, it's useful.brimstoneSalad wrote:In any job where these may be likely scenarios, it's going to be a positive mark on your resume to speak another useful language, even if not very fluently.
But just from an efficiency point of view, we'd probably get better returns from leaving the Spanish to the native bilinguals and focusing more on other important languages that are in shorter supply.