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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
It's hard to bring this up (English as the US's official language) without people screaming foul in regards to using this as a tool to discriminate against immigrants.
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You're absolutely right. And (this is going to sound horribly crass, but I'm gonna say it anyway), the whole discrimination thing has gone way too far. Anymore, everyone can find something to shout, "Discrimination!" at. Blondes are discriminated against because they're blonde. Overweight people are discriminated against because of their weight. Men are discriminated against because they're men. The list is endless. We (in the national sense) don't look for "tools" to enable us to discriminate. We (in the national sense) just look for a way to communicate with one another. If someone who speaks another language comes here to live, they, assuming they want to communicate effectively with us (nationally), need to learn our language. It's not a ploy, or a trick, or some underhanded scheme... it's a language for crying out loud. Learn it -- or don't. But don't expect us (nationally) to learn your language. After all, you're the one who came here.
(Yikes. Sorry for the rant.)
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