We want reading the Lance to be easy and fun."
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How nice. Are there birth announcements, an outing column naming newly-converted gays, and a gossip page naming teachers who are boinking the cheerleaders? |
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We want reading the Lance to be easy and fun."
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How nice. Are there birth announcements, an outing column naming newly-converted gays, and a gossip page naming teachers who are boinking the cheerleaders? |
Dear The Lance,
I demand mandatory readings from Wiccan literature for the heck of it! And no cartoons, or Valentine's Day messages!
And a comparative list of the ingredients in Pepsi AND Coca-Cola AND Dr. Pepper!
Plus.... all things I don't demand and never will!!!!
"A Secret Student"
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When we make accomodations for non-English speakers, we make things easier for them in the short run, but in the long run, we reduce their odds of success, by diminishing the sense of urgency they would otherwise have felt about learning English as quickly and as well as they can.
An immigrant's long term prospects for success in this country are vastly improved by English proficiency. Early total immersion in English, while difficult at first, pays long term dividends.
Got to appease those "new Americans".
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
But is it madatory for advancement in a country were it is the primary language and a world were it is the international language of commerce.
Not challenging them to adapt, is truly the crime. Holding them back, rather enabling them to move forward.
Ping
Ebonics and Clingon to follow.
What is this obsession with Third World cultures?
