Yet another poll - English as National Language?Follow

This is sounding awfully DSD-esque if you ask me.

Wouldn't you just save time by posting "Well, well, so there!"

I mean, honestly. You want to feel better than people because you were born speaking a certain language. Just say it, no one cares. It's no big deal. Insecure people are allways looking for reasons to feel better than someone. Skin color, sexual orientation, nationality, langauge, religion, whatever.

It's not just you, it's just boringly predictible.

They are both ignorant bigots on opposite ends of the political spectrum.

But they are ignorant bigots foremost, so thats how I view them.

If you agree that a country has a right to protect itself and its identity, there are three things that must be maintained: borders, culture and language.

Man, I swear I heard a homophobic Jew from New York say that once on the radio. Nah, I must be imagining things. We know you wouldn't be stupid enough to not only steal and not credit, but stal nad not credit from the functionally retarded.

Right?

If Smash moved to Japan, he'd criticize them for not accomodating his differences.

Honesty is refreshing!

FYI, most sociologists, hell, I'll say all of them because I don't think you could find one that disagrees, say that assimilation is a foregone conclusion. This means that even if that person struggles with the language, he'll pop out a kid that is fluent, maybe bilingual, and by the third generation the kid's likelihood of being a monolingual speaker of his new country's language is close to 100%. Simple terms: be patient.

If you moved to Hong Kong, would you learn Catonese, knowing you could get by perfectly well speaking only English?

That doesn't solve the problem if they keep coming into the country in increasing numbers.

Which would seem to me why English as a National language will be strongly argued as being unconstitutional by civil liberty groups. (and makes me wonder why the founding fathers didn't address an official language originally??)

I was hoping for a Global Language - probably Inuktitut.

...and remember nothing killed the kilo quicker than Congress declaring we were going metric.

FTFY

The main reason why I support this bill is this: Assimilation.

Assimilation is biggest problem with the way our current immigration system is working. In the past immigrants came here to live and prosper in a new place with their entire family, so they had to assimilate into our culture. The trend with current immigrants is to move here for a few years and send some money back to their families wherever they are from. The problem with this is that it does not require them to assimilate into our culture, there are enough racialy specific areas that they can live in and just continue with the culture they left behind. If they do not assimilate into our culture then we will eventually lose it. If enough immigrants come and just stay, but don't feel like they belong here then they will act like they don't belong here and it will overwhelm our government and our culture.

Look at history. How often do you hear the terms Italian-American, or German-American or any of the other races that mass migrated here at the begining of the last century? The answer is hardly never since all those other races have assimilated into our culture and are now just americans. Their culture isn't gone, its just been integrated into ours. Look at Pizza, it was originally Italian and was brought here by the Italian immigrants, but it was changed a bit and became American. And hamburgers, they are now thorouhly american but they were originally from Germany. Those immigrants were assimilated partially due to the fact that in order to function in our country they had to learn english.

Now look at our current crop of immigrants, we facilitate their failer to learn english every chance we get and they are not assimilating into our culture. They are not becoming american and in the long run this will hurt our country very much.

The reason our country has become so great is because of our immigrants, because they have intertwined our culture with theres, without assimlation we'd still be the upstart colonies instead of a leading world power.

So this bill is a large step in the right direction, but its not all that needs to be done.

I really have nothing to add to this discussion but I want to link to Nicaraguan Sign Language because it is neat-o.

If I moved to Japan, I'd learn Japanese. That's all I have to say.

What if you visited Japan and were bitten by a dangerous Japanese Gaijin Eating Snake and had to go to the hospital to find that you had to die i the waiting room because you couldn't fill the forms out in Kanji?

Never mind, nothing like that could ever happen. No one visits the US legally who might require some sort of emergancy service and not speak English.