America Can Not Survive As Multi-Language Country
A multi-language country creates barriers between people, increases costs and tensions. This is not a one trick pony problem, but when individuals and CORPORATIONS push a multi-cultural agenda-one has to ask...why? The evidence is not in your favor. I did not want to hijack my own post, so I started a separate conversation.
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"And how does forbidding people from speaking whatever language they want constitute freedom? "
>>>>>Speak whatever language you want, but don't force me to pay taxes to print anything in a language other than English. Thanks.
We SHOULD officially recognize English as the US' "national language," but the PC Police and other gutless wonders don't have the cojones or brains to do so.
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Geologist wrote in stone: "English, which never met a language it didn't like..."
and were stunned, "nobody" spoke English.
Dr. Z wrote: "I know a lot of clever people who used to speak fluent Japanese, back when everyone thought the world would be ruled by "Japan, Inc.", and most of them struggle to remember enough to be passable tourists now."
If enough of the American Southwest becomes home to a large Hispanic population, then bilingualism will take its natural course. The mistake is to try to force societal changes by government fiat, which creates an "us versus them" atmosphere of hostility.
I know a lot of clever people who used to speak fluent Japanese, back when everyone thought the world would be ruled by "Japan, Inc.", and most of them struggle to remember enough to be passable tourists now.
If the government keeps its nose out of the language issues, social forces will work out the kinks in a much more hospitable way.
Your "community" church is fine because there is no coercion, the "community" is voluntary. Collectivism, that the individual is subservient and subject to the group, requires coercion. i.e., the initiation of force or fraud.
(ocean transportation).
The issue, as far as I'm concerned, isn't with private business or individual citizens, it is with government supporting separateness.
I'm Caucasian, but I have a step-mother who is Filipino, and two younger siblings (a half-brother and half-sister) who are, naturally, each half-Caucasian and half-Filipino.
There's a mildly racist guy I know named Francom who used to be in the same army unit as me, and while he's not a member of any explicitly racist groups (as far as I'm aware), he does occasionally express vaguely white-supremacist sentiments. For example, when I told him that I had a Filipino step-mother, he went off on a long rant about how he thought brown people were ugly, and how Mexican women looked like toads (the fact that Filipinos and Mexicans are totally different groups seemed irrelevant to him). I tried not to say anything, but I gave him a firm look to let him know I didn't appreciate him talking about my family like that. On other occasions, he accused Mexicans and black people of being violent and aggressive, but then turned around and bragged about how white people are supposedly the best fighters and most efficient killers, and therefore make the best soldiers.
One time when we and some of the other guys from the unit went to a gas station together, we happened to pass a Hispanic couple with a young girl who was speaking to her mother in Spanish. I passed by them without a second thought, but as soon as we were out of earshot, Francom spoke up about how it made him angry to see a little girl speaking Spanish on American soil. He said he didn't quite know why, but it made his blood boil to hear another language being spoken besides English.
When I hear people complaining about the multiple languages being sung in this Coca-Cola ad, it echos that same racially prejudiced mentality which I find so repulsive. Cultural intolerance is the seed which grows into racism, and it is racism which fuels the machinations of genocide.
There's an online video I watched recently where two actors engaged in a staged confrontation involving Islamaphobic prejudice in America, and at the end a soldier confronts the actor playing the Islamaphobic bigot, letting him know what it is he fights to defend. You can watch the video here:
http://www.upworthy.com/a-boy-makes-anti...
The attitude and values which that soldier expresses in that video are what I believe in as well, and I think our country would be a much better place if such values were universally held by everyone.
man, went out of the Arc and planted many vines
in the earth, that he did.. (In Esperanto)
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