Winston
Platinum Member
Millions of immigrants can't speak a word of English. They DON'T assimilate at all. I don't care if immigrants can speak English or not. I just don't wan them speaking foreign language in the US.Immigrants always assimilate in the US. The kids pick up shit right alway.
Just because someone is speaking French doesn't mean they can't speak English .
We are either a NATION, or we are not one. A NATION has a distinctive language and culture (the word "a" means ONE)
That is dumb as hell. Like I said, the first thing we did after passing the Constitution was translate it. And since you mention it, what "one language" was spoken in Great Britain at the time of the Revolution? Was it Gaelic or Welsh because hundreds of thousands of Scots didn't speak a word of English.
I mean it is not like we have been down this road before. Everything idiots are saying about Mexicans they said about the Germans. They were called lazy, they were blamed for having too many kids, they were blamed for not assimilating.
Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion?”
Benjamin Franklin, 1751