> > 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. > > "Yugoslavia" was the result of people drawing arbitrary lines on a map after a world > war and was never going to end well. The languages in the country (Serb, Croat, etc.) > are virtually identical, not really any more different than US vs British English > even though they’re written with different scrips. A lot of the resentment came from > trying to force everyone to use the Serb conventions when there was no issue with > understanding each other anyway.
For this topic, I'll just refer back to the late owner of Geno's Steaks down in Philadelphia. He had a sign on his restaurant saying "This is America, speak English" and he refused to serve customers who didn't place their orders in English. I give him props for that. As a society, we should be able to choose whether or not to serve a customer if we don't understand a word they say. Let the resulting economics of that decision determine if it's a good choice or not. Eliminate any and all laws that state that you must offer foreign language menus, etc. If you open up a business in an area where you will suffer from not offering foreign language menus, etc., then the economics of the situation will determine if you survive. Don't allow any discrimination laws to get the government involved here. If someone is speaking English that is not able to be understood by those taking the orders, then they won't get served. Why should it matter if it's a different language?
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