Henry Kissinger and Anold Schwarzenegger became USA citizens and held high positions while were not fluent in English. Infact I wonder how USA poeple understand them!!!
2006-08-22 21:28:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Kissinger and Schwarzenegger are perfectly fluent. Kissinger lectured at university and wrote scholarly books.
You confuse fluency with accent.
Puerto Ricans are not required to speak any English at all, and some don't. They are natural born American citizens if born or adopted there. And they don't pay US income tax (they pay PR mirror tax) and their estates are not subject to US inheritance tax on their PR assets.
Don't you wish you were Puerto Rican?
2006-08-22 21:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fluency in the English Language, which is the official language of the USA, should certainly be a criteria for USA citizenship. Nothing is wrong with someone having some foreign accent but something is wrong with someone with a U.S. Permanent Residency card for many years or worse yet with a U.S. passport and can't speak a word of english!!
2006-08-23 13:58:11 · answer #2 · answered by Kingston 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think speaking english should be necessary to gain citizenship. it basically has to do with assimilation into society. if you do not speak the language, then you will not be a fully productive member of society. if you are not willing to learn english, then that shows to me that you are not willing to be a productive member of society. Sure, you can get a job that an american won't want to do, but you should want more than that. It works for italy, immigrants have 1 year to be fluent in italian or get out.
I do however think that there should be no english requirement to vote. if you are a citizen, english speaking or not, you should be guaranteed all your rights, including the most important one, voting.
2006-08-23 04:35:56 · answer #3 · answered by duke6311 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
almost in every country I know citizenship is granted only to those who can speak the language.
In some cases there is a mandatory requirement that you learn the language at an official institute for a defined period of time, and graduate before receiving full rights as a citizen.
The US is not unique.
2006-08-23 04:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are quite fluent. They just have accents. Nothing in the citizenship criteria forbids accents.
2006-08-23 05:02:45 · answer #5 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because is logic that I you want to join to a concrete group of people (in this case a country) you must be able of understand and being understood by the rest of the group...
2006-08-23 05:05:04 · answer #6 · answered by esther c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason you don't go to Sunday Mass, and then demand that they preach the Holy Koran. If you want to join their club, you have to conform to their standards.
2006-08-23 04:41:03 · answer #7 · answered by Christopher B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the governator does speak fluent english. he just has a funny accent!
2006-08-23 04:47:04 · answer #8 · answered by de rak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And Bush is unable to speak grammatically correct! Talk about putting you foot in your mouth!
2006-08-23 04:47:07 · answer #9 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An accent does not make one any less fluent.
2006-08-23 04:31:09 · answer #10 · answered by h2odog 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋