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[chibi_totoro]

What brings me out of LJ hibernation? a post from someone on my friends list.

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his post: assimilation english. official language. now. it's not racist, it's not hurting immigrants, if anything it is helping them succeed and grow in our country, which is 100% fine with me. but if you're gonna come here

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[x0coolbreeze0x]

The US has become a so called melting pot. IT has assimilated much from other cultures and new immigrants come here. Historically, many first generation immigrants have spoken little or no English however as English rules American business many children growing up under these conditions learn both English and help their parents assimilate. Those who don;t speak English are either immigrants or enrolled in certain(cotemporarily uncommon) language emersion programs. In either case, the privilage of not speaking English has been allowed to many whites and blacks immigrating to the US so the same alloance should be made for all immigrants. Further more with a very large portion of the world population speaking spanish and that part of the world likely to become economically powerful once it is developed maybe we should, oh i dont know...., learn spanish. Official languages are always a political issue used to segregate and/or seperate peoples which only reasonable justification can be to keep the powerful in power and the powerless without power. FUrther more as a student of linguistics I think the concept of using any living language as an official language is just plain stupid.