"What's with all this telephone nonsense of "'Press 1 for English, press 2 for Spanish'?  You live in America. Speak American, you damn illegals, or go home." Ah, the words of the xenophobes. Well, yer blogger has figuratively "pressed 2 for English" in every country she's ever visited. In the 1970s, my little school offered only three foreign languages, Latin,…