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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mutineer" data-source="post: 6107344" data-attributes="member: 69587">It was 1999 or Y2K when something caught my eye while I was shopping.I noticed that ordinary consumer products in hardware stores began to be prominently labeled and advertised in English and Spanish.I'm not talking about that practically useless little instruction pamphlet folded like an accordion and in six different languages that is tucked away in the packaging that blows away in the wind and practically disintegrates as soon as it's discovered.In the immediate following years this bilingual labeling practice began to creep and became more pervasive. And now we have what we have presently.Looking back, it should have crossed my mind right there and then that it really is all about displacement and replacement.</blockquote>