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The new White House also has an Oval Office now that is sporting golden draperies and big golden valences plus brushed gold accents around the room. I kid you not. The king as arrived!
I find the ignorance on this thread astounding. First off the website is under construction.
It was mentioned in the press conference.
Secondly, did they not teach the Treaty of Guadalupe in history class?
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"All laws, decrees, regulations, and provisions emanating from any of the three supreme powers of this State, which from their nature require publication, shall be published in English and Spanish." To some, this step seemed legally required by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), in which Mexico had ceded nearly half its territory to the United States. Although the treaty made no explicit reference to language rights, Article IX guaranteed, among other things, that Mexicans who chose to remain on the conquered lands would enjoy "all the rights of citizens of the United States ... and in the mean time shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without restriction."
"By 1878, however, when Californians met to revise their state constitution, support for minority language rights had waned. Not a single delegate to the convention came from a Spanish-language background. Moreover, the assembly was dominated by the nativist Workingmen's Party, which pushed through a number of draconian measures aimed at Chinese immigrants. In this climate the delegates not only eliminated the 1849 guarantee for Spanish-language publications, but also limited all official proceedings to English (a restriction that remained in effect until 1966), making California one of the nation's first "English only" states. The debate on this provision, and on an unsuccessful attempt to amend it, is excerpted from Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of California, 1878-1879 (Sacramento: 1880-1881), vol. 2, pp. 801-2.
“The place where I was born and spent my childhood gave direction to all my future struggles. In Bialystok the inhabitants were divided into four distinct elements: Russians, Poles, Germans and Jews; each of these spoke their own language and looked on all the others as enemies.”
- - - L. L. Zamenhof, in a letter to N. Borovko, ca. 1895
WRONG! We are a nation that supports multiculturalism because we are just that. This is nothing new and shouldn't be earth-shattering. The United States of America had been called a melting pot since the mid 1800's with immigration to Ellis and Angel Islands. Add that to the various religious groups and countries that settled in parts of America (French in the border with Canada as well as the Louisiana territory, the Spanish in Florida, the English song the eastern seaboard and the Hessans from Germany that fought along with the crown during the Revolutionary War.) To hate this is to hate the ideals of our nation even back in the early Constitutional days of Washington, Adams and Jefferson.
But, he's going to be the president for ALL people?
Maybe learn the language? If you are a legal US citizen and you can not speak the language, then you are still represented, it is just that you have not taken the responsibility to learn to communicate with your representative. The solution is to learn English so you can.
A person who refuses to learn the language and then complains about representation is an idiot.
Maybe learn the language? If you are a legal US citizen and you can not speak the language, then you are still represented, it is just that you have not taken the responsibility to learn to communicate with your representative. The solution is to learn English so you can.
A person who refuses to learn the language and then complains about representation is an idiot.
Supporting all people isn't just a thing for language. Look at his vice president pick for his anti-Gay and anti-abortion policies in Indiana for reference. I know that is a little more than the scope of multi-cultural, but it speaks to the narrative that Trump has a lot of work to truly bring the nation together to be one. He is representing the party that once had a president that wisely said "A house divided cannot stand." Right now, despite his more recent tonedown comments, he isn't doing much of that due to the high contested election.
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