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The goal of all immigrants should be to assimilate and learn English. Basic support until that occurs is all that should be required of the government. Nobody needs to be supporting diversity as it will occur on it's own and as long as there is some basic COMMONALITY (such as communication, social norms, etc.) that diversity won't be a problem. It becomes a problem when we seem to have large communities that don't want to do that but instead want to perserve the culture and language and lifestyle of whatever country they came from. It sounds hippydippy and cool, but its not really. And yes, we are spending money.
Yes. Definitely. Where I live language is used to discriminate against people in the work place and in hiring. Americans are denied a chance to even apply for many jobs as the employment ads are now posted only in Spanish. It's very wrong that good Americans are being denied jobs -- and also that language discrimination is also a cover-up for racial discrimination.
Isn't the free market supposed to take care of that?
If you don't have an official language declared all kinds of problems exist.
Do you have to write up all contracts in multiple languages.
Do you hire operators for emergency 911 and have one for each language, how transfer non english callers to the correct operator? Who pays for it, the people who need the operator who speaks another language?
What happens when they call a local business, and the business only speaks english, and they speak spanish. Should the business say sorry and hang up, or pay extra money to have non english speaking available, and charge who the extra money it costs them?
What about city services, when they call for public utilities, have a water emergency and need the water shutoff because a water pipe burst in their home?
What happens when they get pulled over for a taillight out and they don't understand the police officer giving them a tkt?
What happens at the scene of an accident, when the ambulance crew speaks english, and no one can communicate with the injured person, because they only speak spanish? Let em die?
There are MANY reasons to have a consolidated language, not the least being the safety and security of all people concerned.
My Mother's parents came from Russia, and learned English and spoke ONLY English in public. Why would you denigrate those who conformed to our country's language?
So 911 should only take care of those who can speak English? If you're being murdered but you can only speak Spanish too bad? The others are just as silly
Businesses already do that, and it doesn't cost them money it makes them money, via non english speaking customers
Why are businesses mostly only pandering to Spanish speakers? Most Hispanic-Americans know English so why would there be a need to pander to them in Spanish? I'll let you figure it out. I already know the answer but it probably doesn't fit your agenda.
Don't change the point.
Point is pressing 1 for English & 2 for Spanish does not unite us.
Pushing a button does not divide us either. It gets us to the service we're looking for.
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Originally Posted by All American NYC
No language does.
Sure it does. We had a Civil War to prove it.
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