I agree with you Karen.
We are the only country that has anger issues over being multi-lingual.
And as for it being a cultural issue...the American culture is that of being a melting pot.
So logically, we should be multilingual.
(of course with English being a first language)
It has nothing to do with religion.
Besides, this country was founded on religious freedom,
NOT the freedom to ram one particular religion down anyones throat, including Christianity.
http://sanfords.net/Pagan_Humor_and_Thoughts/faith_of_our_founding_fathers.htmSeparation of church and state is a healthy concept for all involved.
You want your kids to have religion in school?
Then send them to a catholic or other religious school.
I have taught my daughter that if she doesn't want to say 'under God' at school,
then she doesn't have to say it, and she doesn't.
Or she can say 'Under Goddess' if she wants.
I agree that here in the USA English should be our first language.
But I just don't have it in me to have such anger issues over being multi-lingual.
I just don't get the anger...
There would be no room for low pay immigrants in the US,
if Americans would just get out off their lazy asses and work like the immigrants do.
Way back a few generations, Americans understood they had to work their way up from the bottom of the heap.
Now the average American refuses to work for minimum...wants a cake job without earning it, without even going to college.
Then they sit back, living on unemployment if not welfare, bitch and moan on and on about the Mexicans stealing all their jobs.
Yeah right.
40-50 years ago when the Wineries and Vineyards starting taking hold here on the North Fork of LI,
Local teenagers and college students were the ones that were hired to tend to the vines.
Very little immigrants. Immigrants were mainly Polish and just a few Latinos were showing up.
Some black people too. But mainly, high schoolers off for the summer and college students.
And lots of moms that just needed a bit of a day job while their kids were in school.
Now it's nothing but Latinos. Cuz they work so hard for so little. And don't complain.
I have no problem with them...at all.
They are the backbone of the work force at my job too.