#8 We’re all Americans. I disagree. The government goes to enormous lengths to make certain immigrants don’t lose their ethnicity. They teach them in their own language. I spoke with a man born in California to El Salvdoran parents. He spent his first 16 years in California public school. He said, “I quit. I hardly spoke a word of English. I was taught English by a Cuban worker. They were holding me down.”
you are correct. When all government and most businesses say press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, they completely remove any incentive to immerse in the American culture. Same goes for written information and documents from the government and business.
Go to France and see if they have have the same system. I guarantee they won’t for English but might for Arabic.
I used to work with a woman from Puerto Rico. I knew her husband was a teacher in a local school. When I met him I was shocked to see that he could barely speak English.
Buts strictly speaking he didn’t need to. The school system had a huge Spanish speaking population that he was serving, and his wife took care of the English needs.
Strange world.
That is part of a larger 2nd civil war, an ideological one.