In Canada we have two official languages, and in reality it's not a huge issue. It's not unheard of for an English-speaker to move to Quebec and learn French.
In Canada most people respect bi-, and multilingualism.
There are many other countries where the population is relatively happy, educated, and healthy which would never even imagine of using only one language. Places like Switzerland and Sweden come to mind.
Americans seem to be shooting themselves in the foot by being so ignorant of languages other than English.
Not only that, but English of course is from England. If America is supposed to be such an independant country, they could at least have their own language, perhaps one of the aboriginal languages.
Really, the U.S. looks like one big English colony to me. Canada may still use the U.K. monarchy as powerless figureheads, but at least there is diversity and utter recognition of bilingualism, not to mention multi-lingualism. The U.S. are changed Brits.
2007-05-09
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