Some feel that a plan declared English as America's "national language" is an attack on Latinos, many believe that instead of uniting the country, it would divide it.
I think they're just upset because they decided to make" English" the national language instead of "Spanish".
"The idea of bringing in English only as one of the amendments or proposed ideas in this immigration reform act is sort of seems to us a little bit out of place," said Guadalupe Quinn, with Immigration Rights Coalition.
For us it's not at all unifying. if anything it becomes another way to divide communities around this issue," said Quinn "
" What kind of message are we sending to our society if we're going to make everything be monolingual," said Emilio Hernandez Jr. Assistant Vice Provost at the University of Oregon's Office of Equality and Diversity. It's going to have an impact on state government, local government and then schools and then where are our kids going to be in the global economy regards to language," added Hernandez.
That they say, could create a slippery slope. "
27 states already have laws declaring English as their official language.
have you noticed how some of the Spanish groups and Mexico are really starting to complain about us wanting to keep our country, our country?
Have you also notice that you don't hear much from German, Japanese and other groups complaining?
As far as a question of unity... if you want to move into a country, and it does not matter which country it is, out of respect for that country you assimulate into its laws and traditions and that includes speaking the language of that country.
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the same time you hear people like Senator Kennedy say "... this is what the American people want."
More proof just how out of touch our government is with its people and how answers mainly to greed.
we all know that it is common knowledge that the American government is corrupt and we all joke about it. We are too busy in our own little lives to try and worry about what's going on at the federal level. However, you start messing around with our family and income, then people start to wake up and fight.
A couple of questions:
1. Why does anyone listen to anything Teddy Kennedrunk has to say? He is arguably the country's leading drunk driver and unconvicted felon. (Refer to Chappaquiddick some 35 years ago).
2. How long will it be before the illegal aliens demand that our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and other priceless documents belonging only to the citizens of the United States , be translated into MexSpanish?
3. Harry Reid said that making English the National language is racist. Does anyone remember back about 10 or 12 years when he said exactly the opposite on the Senate floor? He either has a very selective memory, or he is looking forward to the day, in the not too distant future, when he could be elected as president of the Senate of the United States of America/Mexico.
English only policies are relatively benign, unless they include blanket prohibitions against state employees using languages other than English when providing key services like health care, job training, or education for children. Deliberately placing language barriers between children and basic education is impractical and immoral, as is placing language barriers between people and access to health care. Many of us who are native English speakers also speak other languages. It is dumb to outlaw our using these skills to do our job.
English is already the de facto national language. If you must make English the national language de jure, then it should be done in a way that affects access to political authority, not basic human needs--for example by requiring all official government legal and legislative records to be posted in English.
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