it seems to be only common sense to promote it. Yep, and I and Luis whole heartedly agree as a matter of policy. But not via denying citizenship to qualifying legal residents, and not via denying entry to legal immigrants because they cannot yet speak English. At least that is my view. As to illegals, we are hypocrits. But however messy what we are doing, it is my view that this will not represent the end of American Anglo Saxon culture as we know it, at least the parts we most treasure. I simply have more confidence in the resiliance of the ideas that animate it to worry much, plus the demographic points that I keep harping on.
You and Luis might believe in promoting a common language so that all Americans can at least communicate on some level with one another ---but when you go back to the article for this thread the hostility to this singer by certain hispanic "leaders" and other hispanics was aroused just by his suggestion that immigrants should learn English. "A country western singer who told his audience at the Greeley Independence Stampede that immigrants should learn to speak English ignited an emotional debate in a community that has seen an influx of Hispanics over the past decade." You have to wonder why these "leaders" think immigrants should not learn the common language.