What happens if we lose the only common bond we have in this nation our language .?

Question

What happens when 25% of the population does not speak english well enough to function in our society and we must label everything in two languages .
How do you feel about a movie dubbed in Spanish being shown at theaters here in America .
This is the present not the future .
A nation divided will never stand .

Answer 1

For many decades, here in New York City, we have had foreign language newspapers in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Yiddish, Greek, Russian, etc. and movie theaters that show only language-specific or dubbed films for various non-English speaking audiences. It is not a problem. Our common bonds go beyond language.

Answer 2

Thank you! Too bad we don't have politicians on this answer board. A nation divided will fall. We are being out ran. We have never made such accommodations for immigrates as we do now. It must cost more to produce these labels in two languages... it should be going to our boarders.Even if it's an extra 5 cents per label... that adds up quick. I would hate the fact of a movie being dubbed just like I hate my basic cable has lost 5 channels because there in Spanish. And yes I said basic, this is not IO I'm talking about. We need to get a handle, it's unfair to everyone who learned and lived by this language. To us, to the past and to the future.

*Ducky- I wouldn't mind ending relations with none English speaking countries. That will eliminate our threat of fake prescription drugs(i posted a question on) it will always pull us away from terrorist supporting countries. I have no issues with American being what we call a melting pot, but I also don't need to have another language pushed on me. My family that wasn't English(1/2 of them came over with the mayflower) was German. Not only did they learn English they changed their last name to fit in*

Answer 3

We already have multiple languages and movies dubbed in Spanish. Language is not the only common bond we have. If you think language is what makes America a nation you don't get it.

Answer 4

You really think language is the only common bond we have in this country? I don't pity you but I hope you don't firmly believe that.

I've made this argument before & I'll make it again.
If we resent those who can't master a language instantly will we begin to resent the blind for needing braille menus or the physically handicapped who need special parking spaces and entrances.

I could care less if there was a movie dubbed in Spanish being shown in theaters. I wouldn't go see it if I didn't want to. With half of the good movies needing subtitles anyway, whats the big deal?

Answer 5

if what your saying is really true - then we will all have to learn Spanish.

Interesting point about a "divided nation"

As a capitalist nation we sell to anyone and everyone.
Would you give up billions in profits because many of your customers didn't speak English ?
Do you (we) have the right to tell American company's how they should run their business ?
How would you stop a company from exercising their right to make Spanish the Second language of business in the United States of America ? really- how ?

Answer 6

You're right, so would you be willing to learn Spanish to keep the union together? Or is unity only achievable for you when someone else compromises? A great many people that I know are perilously close to not being able to speak English well enough to function. The thing is that English is their primary language.

Answer 7

from historic previous Yugoslavia became never a rustic, it became cobbled collectively years some years in the past, and the peoples of those distinctive international places have been culturally and racially distinctive. like each and every of Europe, land and persons usually get absorbed into yet another united states, think of of what became the U.S., now the Federation of Russia, those form of little international places, peoples have been as quickly as component to that empire, and Yugoslavia became a similar, whilst wars happen, one factor wins and the two takes back lands it as quickly as had and those human beings return into the fold, or in addition they want to chop loose, its like transferring sands, flow of persons, is going back hundreds of years. i glance at large Britain as an occasion in a manner, we've had colonies for hundreds of years yet they spoke regularly distinctive languages, in India, South Africa and someplace else, and that they wanted their independence and finally have been given it. So with all people who do not experience they belong. Europe has greater suitable than basically a complicated historic previous, you ought to hunt for Yugoslavia on your historic previous books and spot particularly what occurred before it became cobbled collectively.

Answer 8

Our language is not our only common bond.

Our common bond is a belief in democracy; our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our Declaration of Independence, our history. Belief in America and these things is our common bond. It's not something as superficial as language.

Answer 9

Union is not necessarily within a country languange...is in the ability to fight with common society "disease" like poverty and homeless people...is beyond the language barrier...so why not??? let anyone talk in whatever language they want as long as they cooperate with the society welfare and taxes...

Answer 10

But European nations seem to fare just fine, and because of their proximity to one another, many people speak 3-4 languages...and more.