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[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I have no porblem with allowing ballots to be printed in any language so people can vote.

My problem is with the assumption that one can come here and not learn the native tongue. How do we assimilate if we don't share some common langauge. English is part of our nation's heritage. If I come to your house and you ask me to take off my shoes at the door, I can't say no. You'd rightly tell me to get the fuck out.

Yes, I am fully aware that was an awful analogy, but I've been up for days.

Where were we? Oh, yes... This country has a heritage, and its heritage is tolerance, but its heritage is also English. The English language is an identifying factor of being American. I think people living here should learn it. If I moved to France, I'd sure as shit learn French. Wouldn't you?

My immigrant forebears learned the native tongue. Why was it expected of them, but not expected today? I'll tell you why - because somewhere in the middle of the last century, we got goofy and soft and shitheaded.

The liberal ethos behind this "oh, we should all speak what we like, and we must accomodate everybody's differences" is softheaded horseshit thinking. We all need to get together, and part of that means speaking the same language. I don't know how to do that, but the common sense basis for doing it is irrefutable.

The Pew Hispanic research center says that by the third generation, Spanish is forgotten all together. I went to school and promptly lost my Spanish, which was my first language. How many immigrant kids do you know who speak their parents' native tongue as well as they do English? This a made up problem, and the knee-jerk solution is to threaten something like the VRA which has real value.