> > These songs were written in the common language of the entire US citizenry: > English. > > I'm looking forward to you learning Spanish when that finally takes over. > > Languages are fluid, it's not something that is worth getting upset about.
It is worth getting upset about, because people aren't going to assimilate into wider American culture if they don't speak the dominant language. That is dangerous and must be nipped in the bud. There is an obvious and compelling national and economic interest in maintaining a single common language in the USA, as English is the common language of the US in all facets of modern American life and will remain so for many decades to come.
Do you want the US to become Yugoslavia, which split along ethnic and linguistic lines? Obviously, smf, you do not, but that's what you will ultimately end up doing if you promote that policy.
If you think the vast majority of Americans are going to tolerate changing their common language in their own country to suit whatever the current immigrant group is at the time, you are seriously mistaken. People will not take that lying down.
However, having said that, this doesn't mean that people can't speak their own languages in the privacy of their own homes, of course. It would be un-American to force that on people in their own homes.
However, in the public sphere, there is an obvious need for a common language. English already fills that role nicely in this great melting pot of a nation we have.
In short, smf, this matters a lot. You vastly underestimate how important this is.
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