Did white europeans learn the native language when they invaded America and stole the land?
2007-03-20 18:08:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
no it isn't,but people claim it should be. DAR. the fact that people are wanting english to be our official laguage is just as ridiculous as the last part of my question.
2007-03-20 18:20:08 · update #1
assimilation is they key,but being unrealistic is not. you have americans that can't accept the label after 150 years
2007-03-20 18:28:34 · update #2
Great question and of course lots of stupid responses.
2007-03-20 18:45:52 · answer #1 · answered by RAYNALDO Q 1 · 2⤊ 5⤋
If we hope to reach a common understanding across the planet, we need a common language. English is the defacto common language. Yes, I know it is not the language of the majority of the people on the planet, but it is the one language that science, business, and politics speaks.
No the "white europeans" didn't learn the language of North America because there wasn't one, there were dozens.
2007-03-21 01:20:35 · answer #2 · answered by ML 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How many versions of "we are all immigrants" are there?
English should be the official language because the country currently known as the United States of America was once an English colony, and the colonists spoke English. When the colonies declared independence, they fought a war against England and won. Then, they wrote this thing called the Constitution, and established laws and stuff like that. And it was all, like, written in English. And when we had waves of immigrants, regardless of where they were from, they all learned to speak English. It's called assimilation.
2007-03-21 01:15:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
I thought this was a serious question before I saw that nonesense you added.
Over 200 languages are spoken here. English is the language we speak to each other and in government to communicate.
Should English be the 'official' language? I really don't care. English is the official language in California already, and you couldn't really notice, now could you?
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Actually, English was made the official language of California in the 1980s. It is just a clear example of why this issue isn't very meaningful.
2007-03-21 01:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by DAR 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Studies have shown that there are pockets in America where English is not very well known. This causes problems in many areas including communication with the government, each other and in our schools. Providing text books in many languages would cost more. The point is One Nation... and to do that properly we need our newest citizens to assimilate.
2007-03-21 01:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by American Citizen 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because these United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence is written in the "Official" Language.
2007-03-21 02:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by hera 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nothing is "official" anymore. We are a myriad of many races, cutures, ethnicities. Yes people who come here should learn the language, but few are going to be willing to give up their native language. In reality, we, as a nation should long ago, have mandated that every child learn at least two different languages besides English anyway. And we definitely should have mandated the teaching of Arabic.
2007-03-21 01:38:57 · answer #7 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
So we can all understand what people are saying in papers, out in public, election etc.. also to cut back from having several differnt vesions of the same items printed several times morein different languges .To save the taxpayers money maybe?
2007-03-21 04:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by new name 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Congress passes an ammendment to the immigration reform bill last year...called the inhofe ammendment. It makes Englisht the official language. It passed.
English should be the official language...because 1. it is expensive to print all forms in multiple languages. 2. English is the language spoken by the people that are born here. Therefore, if you come here,you should speak the language. 3. If I go to Germany, I don't expect eveyone to cater to me and my english - I don't expect to be able to read the menu at the Beergarten. Therefore, don't come here and expect to be able to read the cheetos bag.
2007-03-21 01:43:40 · answer #9 · answered by uab_skinhead 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Because it is the language the majority of Americans were raised to speak.
BTW with hundreds of differing tribes there was no one "native language" that you refer to.
2007-03-21 06:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
English language is the official language of the US. Thus, people who wanted to live in America must learn it to have common communication medium in all transactions.
2007-03-21 01:37:35 · answer #11 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋