We the people should never make English the official language of the United States. Should we ignore our rich ancient and current lingual diversity? That’s just hypocritical for us being known as the “melting pot”. The reign of the long, long history of xenophobic paranoia will rise. And in the past, language enactment have not gone well for other countries.
First of all, this advocates xenophobia- the fear and hatred of anything that’s foreign. This argument would raise fears that American values and ideals are under the attack of immigrants. An article from qz.com by Jake Flanagin mentioned that recent comments by the Republican Party in the US (GOP) say that Donald Trump indicates anti immigrant nativism is alive and well, the same kind of big talk was used thousands of years ago by xenophobes to discriminate against immigrants from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe. Just as Desmond Tutu once stated, “Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.” …show more content…
We have a Language Diversity index of .353, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (unesdoc.unesco.org). This means that the chance of 2 random people (from the U.S. population) knowing a different language is over 35%. The U.S.A is significant for the number of languages spoken. In fact, New York alone has speakers of as many of 800 different languages; therefore, making it the city that speaks the most languages. America has always been this “melting pot” where things work together but still is able to identify each piece of the
First of all, this advocates xenophobia- the fear and hatred of anything that’s foreign. This argument would raise fears that American values and ideals are under the attack of immigrants. An article from qz.com by Jake Flanagin mentioned that recent comments by the Republican Party in the US (GOP) say that Donald Trump indicates anti immigrant nativism is alive and well, the same kind of big talk was used thousands of years ago by xenophobes to discriminate against immigrants from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe. Just as Desmond Tutu once stated, “Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.” …show more content…
We have a Language Diversity index of .353, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (unesdoc.unesco.org). This means that the chance of 2 random people (from the U.S. population) knowing a different language is over 35%. The U.S.A is significant for the number of languages spoken. In fact, New York alone has speakers of as many of 800 different languages; therefore, making it the city that speaks the most languages. America has always been this “melting pot” where things work together but still is able to identify each piece of the