i saw the title of this thread and thought it was going to be about TWD taking his U.S. Citizenship test...
LOL! I did too.
i saw the title of this thread and thought it was going to be about TWD taking his U.S. Citizenship test...
Unfortunately that mentality gets deemed "bigoted" quite a bit and can easily be turned around by someone stating "Well why aren't you speaking Cherokee(or other native langauage)Also, you forgot "Learn English". I hate how people expect us to cater to their foreign tongue. I wouldn't move to China and expect everyone to know English... or any other country whose primary language is not my own.
At least with this argument, you can say that there was no global native language in the Americas. I lived on a reservation and met with people from two native tribes, and even common pleasantries in their languages are pretty different. Regardless of how things were, we live in a country that is English speaking, so knowing a reasonable amount of English should be a requirement to citizenship.Unfortunately that mentality gets deemed "bigoted" quite a bit and can easily be turned around by someone stating "Well why aren't you speaking Cherokee(or other native langauage)
we live in a country that is English speaking
No, we don't.Except that you live in a country that is English, Spanish, Cantonese, French, German, Italian, Hawaiian... etc.-speaking. I like how you guys argue against central government all the time, except when you favour an official language solution that doesn't even exist.
Having clusters of people who don't know how to speak English doesn't make us a country that speaks more than just English.
I'm not talking about multi-lingual people. Tons of people in every nation are multi-lingual and that is great. Learning other languages is awesome.Having clusters of people speak more than just English does, however, which was my very point.
But it's pretty simple: there's got to be one language that every citizen in a country should know. It's important to be able to communicate with fellow countrymen and it's incredibly inefficient to have to print everything in multiple languages.
No, we don't.
Having clusters of people who don't know how to speak English doesn't make us a country that speaks more than just English. A person simply cannot function properly in this country without knowing English, and lack of English skills will only cause a person more problems as they try to integrate with society.
Never mind the fact that immigration is handled federally already.