Comments on: Time to Make English Our Official Language

By: arcticchill

arcticchill — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:54:56 +0000

Hey, I just blogged about this topic! English should be the official language, and this is coming from an immigrant.

By: vintage

vintage — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:27:36 +0000

There is no problem in learning english… I appreciated your quote from Theodore Roosevelt.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:55:10 +0000

English should of been our official language a long time ago since 90% of the country speaks it anyway. The country is starting to become more diverse now that thousands of people are coming to America to become US citizens and they’ll soon need to learn some sort of English to get by in America so I think English should be our national language and at the rate its going right now with all of the hispanics immigrating to America…Spanish will probably become a 2nd language to us because everywhere you go theres a English version to something and a Spanish version for it too. Not to mention most high schools make students learn a foreign language as well as a requirement to graduate.

By: purecommonsense

purecommonsense — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:36:47 +0000

Justin N. – Every nation has conquered and been conquered many times throughout history. Cherokee and Lakota may be spoken on reservations, but right or wrong, the fact is that they have not been the dominant language here for quite some time. Like you said, the Louisiana Purchase was in 1803. For all the recent past the language has been English. You can talk all you want about how bad it was that some identity was lost in the past. The best we can do is work on our identity now.

By: askcherlock

askcherlock — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:54:14 +0000

I agree with you that if one becomes an American citizen, they should become American—language and all allegiance. I appreciated your quote from Theodore Roosevelt.

By: Justin N.

Justin N. — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:44:26 +0000

If someone from Spain immigrates to the States they should only attain citizenship once they make the American identity their identity and the only way to really accomplish that is for them to start speaking English. If they want to be a citizen, they should come to America to be an American. They should not become a citizen by coming to America to be a Spaniard living in America.

I couldnt agree more with these sentiments if a person comes to American they should learn the language of the language of the land hence Cherokee or Lakota or Potawatomi. Roosevelt cant have it both ways. He is arguing that people when they come to a country should become where they are at hence live more like the first americans and learn there languages.

By: Justin N.

Justin N. — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:38:59 +0000

If this country has a national language it should be a native language whether it be Navajo or Lakota or Potawatomi. Everyone makes a big deal about English but until the 1803 or about with the lousianna purchase only a very small portion of the now US was speaking English. They were speaking French or Spanish. But before the 1600′s no one was speaking English but were in fact speaking a language from the area they lived whether it was Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Navajo, Winnebago, Luiseno etc. Therefore if English one day loses out to the likes of say Spanish I say oh well. No one seems real concerned about Language which are native to this continent. All of these languages are immigrant languages anyway.

By: Cher Linn

Cher Linn — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:55:07 +0000

Hey Mike, this is a very good post! I especially like the part when you said “If they want to be a citizen, they should come to America to be an American.” Though I’m not an American, but I understand how one would feel if one day our identity is diluted due to immigrations of people from different background. Good one! =)

By: kenwooi

kenwooi — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:55:34 +0000

in Malaysia, we have about 3 main languages, due to different races in the country. Well, The Malay language is the main language because the Islam is the main religion (Msia is an Islam country) and then followed by Chinese and Indian language..

The weird thing about Msia is, the government wanna have Japanese as its 2nd language.. crazy right? -.-

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