Friday, April 22, 2005
Guest Feature
My Friend Mike (I wanted to give him a cool nickname like the "G-man" (for reasons of my own) but he thought "Mike" would do nicely)(Note that Mike has no relationship to the Michael whose website link is found on my page) sent this to me an in e-mail and gave me his permission to post it here. I post it without any editorial of my own:
WHY NOT ENGLISH AS OUR OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Why is there such a clamor with the United States adopting an official language? Would it displease the world population? Would we sink into an abyss? Would we become a non state? Would 280 million Americans become un-people? Would our products pile up on the docks?
The last time I checked there were about 182 countries listed in The Factfinder and World Almanac 2002, 2003. Of these, 169 have official languages, many documented in their Constitutions. Indeed Canada has English and French listed as their official languages, while Mexico has Spanish adopted as their country’s official language.
What's more 17 countries south of Texas have Spanish as their official language. I have examined their constitutions and an official language is mentioned therein. Thirteen countries have seen fit not to adopt an official language but most are of small populations, others have very diverse populations, and a less significant number are Arab.
During the 1900s, we didn’t teach German, French, Polish, Hungarian, or Gaelic to the millions of immigrants entering our land. Nope, they learned English. After 1945, we occupied Germany, but German is still the official language of Germany. Japan was also occupied until the 1950s but their official language remained Japanese. Millions of Americans invaded Vietnam during the 60s and 70s but the official language is still Vietnamese.
This is just another empty headed attack by the PC gang. And why does bilingualism in America somehow equal Spanish, why not French or German? Could it be that we are being invaded by foreign populations typically south of Texas, and do not want to injure the feelings of the official speaking Spanish peoples? What’s the problem with our adopting English as our official language? 169 nations weren’t concerned about our feelings. This snake oil phony indignation is another pile of PU from PC police.
WHY NOT ENGLISH AS OUR OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Why is there such a clamor with the United States adopting an official language? Would it displease the world population? Would we sink into an abyss? Would we become a non state? Would 280 million Americans become un-people? Would our products pile up on the docks?
The last time I checked there were about 182 countries listed in The Factfinder and World Almanac 2002, 2003. Of these, 169 have official languages, many documented in their Constitutions. Indeed Canada has English and French listed as their official languages, while Mexico has Spanish adopted as their country’s official language.
What's more 17 countries south of Texas have Spanish as their official language. I have examined their constitutions and an official language is mentioned therein. Thirteen countries have seen fit not to adopt an official language but most are of small populations, others have very diverse populations, and a less significant number are Arab.
During the 1900s, we didn’t teach German, French, Polish, Hungarian, or Gaelic to the millions of immigrants entering our land. Nope, they learned English. After 1945, we occupied Germany, but German is still the official language of Germany. Japan was also occupied until the 1950s but their official language remained Japanese. Millions of Americans invaded Vietnam during the 60s and 70s but the official language is still Vietnamese.
This is just another empty headed attack by the PC gang. And why does bilingualism in America somehow equal Spanish, why not French or German? Could it be that we are being invaded by foreign populations typically south of Texas, and do not want to injure the feelings of the official speaking Spanish peoples? What’s the problem with our adopting English as our official language? 169 nations weren’t concerned about our feelings. This snake oil phony indignation is another pile of PU from PC police.
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 3:45 PM 
