au1929 wrote:Brown wrote
Quote:What gives you, or the US government, the right to tell me what language to speak?
No one is telling anyone what language to speak but by the same token why should anyone accommodate you in any language other than the one spoken in the US? Both of my parents spoke Russian. However, they also read, wrote and spoke English. They never expected any accommodation in their native language. They learned English upon their arrival in the USA. 100 years ago when they arrived things were quite different from today. In those days when they arrived people did their best to assimilate as soon as possible.
This is why the US was called the great melting pot. Now that isn't so any more, we are now a great multicultural pot and it isn't working. People are not blending into the US culture any more, but insist that languages other then English be taught in the schools, and I'm not talking about Spanish to learn Spanish, or German to learn German. I'm talking about ESL classes when they are not needed. I know several
LEGAL immigrants who have moved here and their whole family picked up the English language in about a year. I know my grandfather learned English at a young age after moving here from Sicily and when he died didn't even have an accent because of his drive to fit in and become an American citizen. I don't know why this drive doesn't exist in more the immigrants today?
In a different thread there was a stat on the amount of money the state of Texas spends on printing govt information in different languages and it was quite a large sum. This is taxpayer money that should be spent in a country where over 85% of the citizens speak English. Besides, don't you have to pass an English proficiency test to become a citizen? If so then why are ballots for elections printed in different languages?
