Why can't Spanish be the official language of America?

Answer 1

You're kidding right? America has been speaking English since it's been a country.

Answer 2

During the 18th century, there were so many Germans in America that Congress considered a proposal to print federal laws in both English and German, but it did not pass. Benjamin Franklin recognized the problem and was concerned that the prevalence of Germans speaking German would require interpreters in Parliament. Franklin was, of course, right and the Germans and other non-English-speaking immigrants learned English and we lived happy with English as the only US language until the influx of the Spanish-speaking illegals who are either too stupid or too lazy to learn English.

If Hispanics want to speak Spanish, then they should go south to one of the Spanish-speaking countries. On the other hand, if they want to live and work in the United States, they should learn English. By refusing to learn English, they are only hurting themselves. And, let’s face it, if they spent as much time studying English as they do bellyaching because the rest of us don’t speak Spanish, they would be speaking English in no time and the problem would be solved.

Answer 3

And the official 'economic system' of America? Why not those of Spanish-speaking countries to our south? Then, none of them would have a reason to come here and we could sit in our roofless shanties, have 10 babies per family and rot.

That's probably what they're hoping for, huh?

No. These illegals come here with a false pride and determination born of the assumption that, somehow, this time their system will work.

Why?

Look at history. In the mid-1830s, the government of Mexico, under General Santa Anna, attempted to centralize power. However, several Mexican states rebelled against his government, including Texas, California, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Yucatán, Jalisco and Zacatecas.

TEN states, at least, saw that the Mexican way wouldn't work. Mexico managed to keep all but Texas and California, WHICH it (Mexico's government) willingly surrendered after a careful review of the terms of a treaty. They even bargained. In the end, the U.S. paid them $15 Million.

That's an Official Spanish country's way.

Answer 4

It is just good manners and respectful to speak the language of the country you are visiting and living in. If I visit Japan, I should know a few phrases in Japanese. If I live there, I should learn to speak Japanese fluently. That's just common decency.

However, I don't think you have to worry. Spanish will be spoken more than English in America within 50 years.

I've seen a lot of fighting on the boards - Americans vs. illegals. The truth is, illegals are winning. They will win. And what they will win is a country that is as broke and corrupt, as poor and crime-ridden as what they left because they are turning America into another Mexico. And Americans are simply along for the ride...and paying out the nose for the ride as well.

Tancredo said that Miami looks like a third world country already and we're just going to keep going that way.

So congrats illegals! You win!

Answer 5

That's a rhetorical question; why can't English be the official language of Greece or Japan? We're America!

Answer 6

Because - while its never been officially declared the national language - we got our independence from the English in the Revolutionary War and that was what everyone spoke. A bunch of illegals and Mexican women popping out a kid every year won't get us to change that no matter how much they might like it.

Answer 7

Because not enough people speak it, and not enough want to. People don't have a right to come illegally and through illegal numbers change our country's culture against our will. How would they like to 'go back home' and find it had been taken over by someone speaking a different language they didn't speak and not understand daily conversations in their own 'home' country?

We are all more comfortable with our own culture, and while the American culture includes assimilation - both ways - of many cultures, that is not the same as being subsumed into a single foreign culture. It is also dependent on a slow change, which mass legal immigration does not lend itself to.

Why should we be ok with having 'Main Street USA' wiped off of the face of the planet? How would you feel if it were your culture being lost?

Answer 8

Because when the immigrants came to America,they did came from different countries where they speak different languages,but if you are talking about USA which is not America,is part of America,most of the immigrants came from England where the people speak English

Answer 9

My family is the descendants of immigrants --They came into the United States legally so -

Why can't the official language of the United States be Gaelic or German?

Seems fair to me.

Answer 10

The US should not have an official language.

Beyond that - just wondering about how the Native Americans must have felt when all those darn illegally immigrating white people showed up wiping away (violently I might add) their "Main Street" and their language?