People now realize that without unifying factors between new immigrants and residents of this country, we eventually will break up into specific cultural groups that will inevitably vie against one another for power over the direction of our country. We will become balkanized.
Our politics will divide even more on ethnic issues and petty points that previous generations were able to get pass because of the integration of immigrants into American culture. It's obvious the concepts of "Diversity" and "Multiculturalism" have been introduced to our society as a means to injure our nation by irreparably dividing our people along ethnic lines.
This can no longer be permitted nor tolerated. I myself adore my linguistic capabilities. I speak Portuguese like a fish breathes water and absolutely love the Spanish language. I don't even listen to American music having wholly rejected it when the abomination of Rap hit the airwaves. But I am COMPLETELY AMERICAN and anyone who wants to live here on our shores must strives for the same thing.
We as a society should accept no less.
This is our home and we cannot tolerate guests who try to push us around and tell us how to run things. They need to conform or be shown the door in the harshest possible manner.
/Caffeine induced rant off.
Although I have no problem with this ad, THIS is the point people simply refuse to get because they don't WANT to get it.
In a nation with so many differences among the populace--religious, political, ethnic, cultural--there has to be SOMETHING that ties us together on a social level. You simply HAVE to have a common language in order for all of those in the society to be on at least that common level--the ability to talk to each other, to communicate.
This has been perverted so people claim it's some form of cultural hegemony to insist that everyone in the country can be on the same page in terms of communication. In decades past, immigrants WANTED to learn, in fact, they would consider someone trying to STOP them from learning the nation's language someone who wanted to keep them down.
All who have achieved any level of success in this country have one thing and one thing only in common--they were able to communicate to the fellow members of the society.
Anyone--any parent--who resists having a common language is not only an arrogant pr*ck without an operating brain; he or she is actively assisting in the failure of his or her children for the rest of their lives.
Nice rant. More caffeine please? J
I, on the other hand, can't abide the spanish language. It's offensive to my ear.
Now, German. That's another story.
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