In his essay "In Plain English: Let's Make It Official," Charles Krauthammer mentions English being the key to unifying a multicultural society like the United States. There is no doubt that the United States is a nation composed of immigrants from all over the world. However, it is not a nation composed of immigrants trying to ostracize themselves to create their own territory. We are a melting pot of many linguistic, cultural, and ethnic groups that are constantly interacting and coming together to form the American culture. Nonetheless, people are now rejecting the melting pot theory and embracing a "bi-nationalism" concept. Essentially, America has become a salad bowl in which the different linguistic groups do not melt together but merge
