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 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:20 pm
It is official, as far as the Senate is concerned, the national language of America is English. It passed 64-33 (I believe). Believe it or not, English was never the official language, more of the unofficial.
What are your thoughts?
Personally, I dont really see a problem with this, so long as it doesnt turn into a problem (i.e. EVERYTHING is in English only, and people who dont speak it fluently are lost, and must survive on broken english).
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:23 pm
I say it's a damn waste of the Senates time, and they should be using it to discuss more pressing issues, *like gas, the war, and such* but that's just be, though. And as long as they aren't a**l about people speaking English, then I see no real trouble with it.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:33 pm
I think that all this is, is a superficial (ie: easy) way of trying to deal with the "Mexican Invasion" that everyone is so ******** afraid of.
It's like "OH NO! BROWN PEOPLE WHO SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE!"....and yet, Spanish is not even technically their NATIVE language. They're actually speaking the language of their oppressors (Spain), not the native tongue of their people.
You see, people think that if they can make a certain language the "number one" language, that "the Mexicans" (whatever the ******** that means...people from Mexico? Brown-looking people? People who are poor? People who are migrant workers? WHAT?!) cannot "take over" (which I don't get either...even though there are tons of Latino-American people, I've yet to see a Latino president who only speaks Spanish, or even a first/second generation immigrant in a high political office.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
But if I'm right, it really means that congress is just putting it's head in the sand about the "problems" that our nation is facing, preferring to waste their time on stupid s**t like "English is our primary language" instead of "how are we going to deal with outsourcing/Iraq/social problems that are rampant/etc?"
Languages other than English isn't ruining America. It's the legislation's refusal to address the social and economic problems that are causing our country to gut itself from the inside out.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 7:28 pm
What? Why were they wasting their time on that? What was it before, Portugese? And what were the 33 people thinking?
They should be worrying about other stuff, not our official language. Idiots.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:01 pm
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:16 am
You all make good points, and I agree, it could be a way of handeling the immigration problem, but I dont know if its really that bad. Waste of time? yes. But if the official language were English, it would make people actually learn a decent ammount of English before just showing up, expecting a job on little to no English.
(Sorry, I live near Waukegan, IL, and there are alot of spanish speaking people here. Im not racist or anything, it just bugs me that a decent percent of people around here have no intention of speaking English, when by and large, it is an English speaking nation).
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:56 pm
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Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:55 pm
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:03 pm
Sand ******, reporting in.
This is probably just so that the government can have actual LEGAL grounds for denying the Spanish "Star-Spangled Banner", other than just plain ol' xenophobia.
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 11:11 pm
As a mostly-Northern-European, I'm probably the one who would "Benefit" most from this law.
So why do I consider it a waste of time and tax money (The Capitol isn't free to operate people)?
That's the basic answer. I'm no libertarian, but I do believe that each and every policy the government makes needs to have a reason, and a good reason for the American People as a whole. So far, the government's record on this isn't very good...
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 12:29 pm
Son of Axeman Sand ******, reporting in.
This is probably just so that the government can have actual LEGAL grounds for denying the Spanish "Star-Spangled Banner", other than just plain ol' xenophobia. I dont think its really xenophobia, I consider it insulting to be honest. I mean, while English isnt the 'offical language', it still is the major language spoken by the country. I mean, to me its like going to Iceland or some other country, and releasing their national anthem in English. It just seems like curtosy to me.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:02 pm
Curtosy would be the Bush Administration telling them that, seeing as how English is the de facto official language, a Spanish Star Spangled Banner would be inappropriate. THis is the Administration saying "Haha, now you aren't LEGALY ALOWED to sing it in Spanish? Ain't that a b***h, you dirty mexicans?"
Passing the law was unnecissary. Or, at least it could have been done when a language issue wasn't being discussed that very moment. That realy makes it look like a slap in the face.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 9:29 pm
I think it's just a waste of time debating on the whole thing. They do all this stuff to make themselves seem as un-racist as possible and fail because we all know it's an attempt to be nondiscriminatory.
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 3:18 am
I personally find it apalling. Setting a National Language deviates from the way the country was envisioned back at it's inception. The United States was made as a place where everybody could come and be treated equal. Setting a National Language is legalized discrimination against those that live in the US who don't have English as their primary language. It makes them second class citizens of sorts. While some think it's a waste of the Congressional body's time, it is actually a very serious matter. Considering that at least 40% of the country is not caucasion, anglo-saxon. This means that at least 40% of the country has been told that they are now second class citizens because now, there is a National Language, and it isn't their first language.
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:54 am
Time-Spanned Soul I personally find it apalling. Setting a National Language deviates from the way the country was envisioned back at it's inception. The United States was made as a place where everybody could come and be treated equal. Setting a National Language is legalized discrimination against those that live in the US who don't have English as their primary language. It makes them second class citizens of sorts. While some think it's a waste of the Congressional body's time, it is actually a very serious matter. Considering that at least 40% of the country is not caucasion, anglo-saxon. This means that at least 40% of the country has been told that they are now second class citizens because now, there is a National Language, and it isn't their first language.
There's the elitist system at work for ya. It's stupid, discriminatory things like this that make Japan all the more appealing...
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