Language seeks to provide a common ground for different cultures.
Oh totaly, and I am all for teaching it.
But I wont judge how one is “American” by the language he speaks, and how well he speaks it.
In all honesty, the author swims in self-deilusion…
So ‘Russian Beer’ I would say language is crucial to national identity
Not really, my father, who can only say “small coffee please” in english, always announces himself as Canadian. He is a citezen and loves his country. Even though he dosent know a word of French and almost nothing of english. And he is not alone.
That is where I have a different point of view than you. My parents speak good English and they learned it while they were studying in India a while ago. A few East Asian friends of mine also have parents who learned to speak English while living in their native countries.
Simply having access to better education does not necessarily result in increased job opportunities in the native countries of many immigrants. There are other examples such as the immigrants from former soviet-countries who are brilliantly intelligent but could not find a good jobs in their own countries, so they had to emigrate to other countries.
What I’m trying to say is, education may teach people English, but it won’t stop them from immigrating to the US and other countries
I really didn’t expect a comment like this. When I’m in an elevator or somewhere where I’m actually heard and I’m talking to someone who speaks my language, and although I have full rights to speak any language wherever whenever, I avoid speaking Arabic out of plain politeness. But you wouldn’t expect me to speak my tounge language at home!? That’s sort of asking for too much right there, I really don’t want to give up my mother language.
in england, we have alot of foreign nurses (for example)… in their nativ countries they earn maybe £1 a day, so they come here to earn £60 a day and give their children a future…
sad thing is that it is screwing up their native country’s health system…
there education standards (in nursing) are as high as here, it is the economic climate that facilitates emigration
Well its just bad manners, nothing else, its like when I go with my freinds and they start speaking about Football! They know, I know nothing about it! Nor do I care, but they go off about it like its their religion. Alienating me completly.
This man should read up on the LAW that the FOUNDING fathers included which states the separation of church and state.
Correct me if I am wrong…
wasnt separation of church and state meant to keep the state out of the church? So the state couldnt say that there could only be “this” religion and that everyone not following it would be punished (i.e. the inquisition)
church leaders had more absolute power and control in a state due to peoples’ religious beliefs, so politicians separated the two so that we became ‘states’ not ‘religious states’ and democracy could run more efficiently as the politician had more power than the church
