Lucy22444
EOE and bilingualism are 2 different issues. Being and Equal Opportunity Employer simply means that the employer will not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, and so on. Basically an applicant will be judged soley on his or her ability to do the job. Being able to speak more than 1 language is a skill like typing or bookkeeping – it has nothing to do with a person’s race, ethnicity, etc. If a business caters to a large spanish-speaking population, then they may need their employees to speak spanish and english. That is just part of the job. If you are a person who doesn’t speak spanish, then you should probably look for a job where you wont be working directly with people whose primary language is spanish. Or if those are the jobs you really want to do, then you can learn spanish. It’s just like learning any other skill required to do a certain job. Right now I am learning Japanese because working with the Japanese engineers is part of my job. I look at it as an opportunity to learn something new.