Dutch wasn’t foreign in New York whereas English was.
“Dutch wasn’t foreign in New York whereas English was.”
You’re right - I’d have been more accurate if I’d said ‘language other than English’ instead of ‘foreign language’.
The German spoken in Pennsylvania, and other places, for instance, is older than the United States of America, even if people have been lynched here for speaking German in modern times. Delaware still has the colors of Sweden in its state flag from the time they were their colony and Swedish was spoken in the area. And Washington commended the support he had in the Revolution from Americans of Irish origin whose first, and preferred, language was Gaelic, but you’d not get that impression here from some posters.