Why does most of this thread make me feel even less American? *looks at bookshelf full of manga and British literature* *looks at laptop, showing I spend all day on the international internet* hmmm... *looks at football banners on wall* football! I am 'merican! https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/...R7RDBmW6OaMf3i4XwSgdy_grTS4dr6eP-sGOBDYCtAC94
*Looks at how favorite band is British.* *Playing a Japanese game* *Watching Monty Python* Well then... *Eats fistful of bacon and an entire package of Oreos.* 'MERICA!!
[video=youtube;RBV-ae_zYGk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBV-ae_zYGk[/video] What Americans will be singing in the future.
It is too late many universities and public schools in the US are now requiring english speaking students to take courses in Spanish and also eliminating many other foreign languages. When employers require bilingual, they want employees to also speak Spanish, not any other language.
I hate to tell you this, but a bilingual America just isn't going to happen. The vast majority of Americans are against it. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with legal immigrants, but I believe in order to become an American citizen, one must first be able to speak the language. If I were to move to Mexico, I would be expected to learn Spanish. Why are Mexican and Cuban immigrants not expected to learn English?
“The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.” -George Washington
