Certain people are beginning to act like it is unconstitutional to speak any language but English in public in the United States. If we make English the official language, doesn't that just mean that it's the language that government business is conducted in? Does making English the official language mean people wouldn't be allowed to speak other languages in public, even if they speak English fluently as well? Do you think as Anglophones we have some God-given right not to have to hear or read any language but our own in public, even when it has nothing whatsoever to do with governmental business, documents, or signage?
What's the take on this in other countries where there is an official language? Do countries that choose an official language for government business also make it illegal for people to speak other languages in their homes, in privately owned businesses, or in public? Do they go so far as to force Korean or Indian grocers to sell goods with English names on the cans?
2006-06-10
15:20:53
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