Should English be the official language of the United States?
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Top Opinion
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rand 2012/07/30 00:49:42Yes it should be the official language and all government materials should be...
But then, most of these "multi-lingual" countries speak English as a second language. Why do you think that is?
English is an official language of at least 50 countries. None of ... U.S. Englishsays that official English promotes unity, empowers ... As long as people are willing to respect the laws of the land, I don't see a problem with this.
English is the de facto language since, at this point, it is the most widely spoken language in the nation. But Spanish is catching up with over forty million Hispanics speaking their native language at home, at work, and on their daily lives
After the Spanish-American War, English was declared "the official language of the school ... should be required to make English its primary language as a condition of statehood. ... Arizona
now show me once again where that is. better read what the supreme court has said and know you constitution before you speak.
The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by many state constitutions and state and federal laws. The freedom is not absolute; the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are excluded from the freedom of speech, and it has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech.
Criticism of the government and advocacy of unpopular ideas that people may find distasteful or against public policy are almost always permitted. There are exceptions to these general protections, including the Miller test for obscenity, child porno...
now show me once again where that is. better read what the supreme court has said and know you constitution before you speak.
The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by many state constitutions and state and federal laws. The freedom is not absolute; the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are excluded from the freedom of speech, and it has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech.
Criticism of the government and advocacy of unpopular ideas that people may find distasteful or against public policy are almost always permitted. There are exceptions to these general protections, including the Miller test for obscenity, child pornography laws, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising. Within these limited areas, other limitations on free speech balance rights to free speech and other rights, such as rights for authors and inventors over their works and discoveries (copyright and patent), protection from imminent or potential violence against particular persons (restrictions on fighting words), or the use of untruths to harm others (slander). Distinctions are often made between speech and other acts which may have symbolic significance.
Despite the exceptions, the legal protections of the First Amendment are some of the broadest of any industrialized nation, and remain a critical, and occasionally controversial, component of American jurisprudence.
the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are excluded from the freedom of speech, and it has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech.
The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances
the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are excluded from the freedom of speech, and it has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech.
hows that for you, to understand means government can enact one at anytime.
I'm sorry that you want to live in a nation where people can't even speak their native tongue in their own home.
To do it now would cause an enormous amount to distress in the country and create a huge amount of racial tension.
There are only 4 countries where English is the de faco language.
Australia
New Zealand
Britain
United States.
Countries with English as an Official Language and the Language of Instruction in Higher Education
Anguilla Ireland, Northern Singapore
Antigua and Barbuda Ireland, Republic of Solomon Islands
Australia Jamaica South Africa
Bahamas Kenya Swaziland
Barbados Lesotho Tanzania
Belize Liberia Tonga
Bermuda Malawi Trinidad and Tobago
Botswana Malta Turks and Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands Mauritius Uganda
Cameroon Montserrat United Kingdom
Canada (except Quebec) Namibia Vanuatu
Cayman Islands New Zealand Wales
Dominica Nigeria Zambia
England Papua New Guinea Zimbabwe
Fiji St. Kitts and Nevis
Gambia St. Lucia
Ghana St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Gibraltar Scotland
Grenada Seychelles
Guyana Sierra Leone
better know you stuff.
Countries where English is a de jure/official language
Country
Region
Population1
Antigua and Barbuda[8]
Caribbean
85,000
Bahamas, The[8]
Caribbean
331,000
Barbados[9]
Caribbean
294,000
Belize [10]
Central America / Caribbean
288,000
Botswana [10]
Africa
1,882,000
Cameroon[8]
Africa
18,549,000
Canada[8]
North America
33,531,000
Dominica[8]
Caribbean
73,000
Eritrea[8]
Africa
5,224,000
Ethiopia[8]
...
Countries with English as an Official Language and the Language of Instruction in Higher Education
Anguilla Ireland, Northern Singapore
Antigua and Barbuda Ireland, Republic of Solomon Islands
Australia Jamaica South Africa
Bahamas Kenya Swaziland
Barbados Lesotho Tanzania
Belize Liberia Tonga
Bermuda Malawi Trinidad and Tobago
Botswana Malta Turks and Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands Mauritius Uganda
Cameroon Montserrat United Kingdom
Canada (except Quebec) Namibia Vanuatu
Cayman Islands New Zealand Wales
Dominica Nigeria Zambia
England Papua New Guinea Zimbabwe
Fiji St. Kitts and Nevis
Gambia St. Lucia
Ghana St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Gibraltar Scotland
Grenada Seychelles
Guyana Sierra Leone
better know you stuff.
Countries where English is a de jure/official language
Country
Region
Population1
Antigua and Barbuda[8]
Caribbean
85,000
Bahamas, The[8]
Caribbean
331,000
Barbados[9]
Caribbean
294,000
Belize [10]
Central America / Caribbean
288,000
Botswana [10]
Africa
1,882,000
Cameroon[8]
Africa
18,549,000
Canada[8]
North America
33,531,000
Dominica[8]
Caribbean
73,000
Eritrea[8]
Africa
5,224,000
Ethiopia[8]
Africa
82,101,998
Fiji[8]
Oceania
827,900
The Gambia[8]
Africa
1,709,000
Ghana[8]
Africa
23,478,000
Grenada[8]
Caribbean
106,000
Guyana[11]
South America / Caribbean
738,000
India [10][12]
Asia
1,143,540,000
Ireland[13]
Europe
4,581,269
Jamaica[14]
Caribbean
2,714,000
Kenya[8]
Africa
37,538,000
Kiribati[8]
Oceania
95,000
Kingdom of the Netherlands[8]
Caribbean (and Europe)
17,000,000
Lesotho[8]
Africa
2,008,000
Liberia[8]
Africa
3,750,000
Malawi[15]
Africa
13,925,000
Malta[8]
Europe
412,600
Marshall Islands[8]
Oceania
59,000
Mauritius[8]
Africa / Indian Ocean
1,262,000
Federated States of Micronesia[8]
Oceania
111,000
Namibia[8]
Africa
2,074,000
Nauru[16]
Oceania
10,000
Nigeria[8][17]
Africa
148,093,000
Pakistan[8]
Asia
165,449,000
Palau [10]
Oceania
20,000
Papua New Guinea[18][19]
Oceania
6,331,000
Philippines[8][2]
Asia
90,457,200
Rwanda[8]
Africa
9,725,000
Saint Kitts and Nevis[20]
Caribbean
50,000
Saint Lucia[8]
Caribbean
165,000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[21]
Caribbean
120,000
Samoa[22]
Oceania
188,359
Seychelles[8]
Africa / Indian Ocean
87,000
Sierra Leone[8]
Africa
5,866,000
Singapore[23]
Asia
4,839,400
Solomon Islands[8]
Oceania
506,992
South Africa[24]
Africa
47,850,700
South Sudan[25]
Africa
8,260,490
Sudan[8]
Africa
31,894,000
Swaziland[8]
Africa
1,141,000
Tanzania[8]
Africa
40,454,000
Tonga[26]
Oceania
100,000
Trinidad and Tobago[8]
Caribbean
1,333,000
Tuvalu[10]
Oceania
11,000
Uganda[8]
Africa
30,884,000
Vanuatu[27]
Oceania
226,000
Zambia[8]
Africa
11,922,000
Zimbabwe[8]
Africa
13,349,000
Countries where English is the de facto language
Country
Region
Population1
Australia[28]
Australia
22,374,370
New Zealand[8]
Oceania
4,294,350
United Kingdom
Europe
61,612,300
United States[citation needed]
North America
309,442,000
[edit] Non-sovereign entities
Entity
Region
Population1
American Samoa11
Oceania
67,000
Anguilla[8]
Caribbean
13,000
Bermuda9[8]
North America
65,000
British Virgin Islands[8]
Caribbean
23,000
Cayman Islands [10]
Caribbean
47,000
Christmas Island12[8]
Australia
1,508
Cocos (Keeling) Islands[8]
Australia
596
Cook Islands[8]
Oceania
20,200
Falkland Islands
South Atlantic
3,000
Gibraltar[8]
Europe
29,257
Guam4
Oceania
173,000
Guernsey10
Europe
61,811
Hong Kong2[8]
Asia
7,097,600
Isle of Man8
Europe
80,058
Jersey6[8]
Europe
89,300
Montserrat[10]
Caribbean
5,900
Niue[8]
Oceania
1,600
Norfolk Island[8]
Australia
1,828
Northern Mariana Islands7
Oceania
84,000
Pitcairn Islands13[8]
Oceania
50
Puerto Rico3
Caribbean
3,991,000
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha[10]
South Atlantic
5,660
Sint Maarten
Caribbean
40,900
San Andrés y Providencia[29]
Caribbean
59,573
Somaliland[30]
Africa
3,500,000
Tokelau [10]
Oceania
1,400
Turks and Caicos Islands[8]
Caribbean
26,000
U.S. Virgin Islands5
Caribbean
111,000
[edit] Map of English Status
Quite frankly I would quite copy and pasting from sites that are old and unreliable. You have done very poorly at this very simple job.
Just because countries have an official language does not mean that is the only languages that countries uses either. Most countries are multi-lingual.
The facts are that the majority of all of these countries is that they have several languages that are used on a daily basis and they get alone comfortable with that system.
Every country on the planet id dealing with multiple languages, American is the only country that is trying to make a massive deal about it and thinks they are better than every other person on the planet. Just where exactly do you think the people came from you explored you country in the first place. They certainly were not born there!
Canada has TWO official languages. FRENCH and ENGLISH.
Ethiopia official languages: Amharic, English, Tigrigna.
Eritrea has NO offical language, though Tigrinya, Arabic and English predominate in commerce and national business
Oceania- French and English are official in virtually all the states of Oceania.
Tokelau official languages are English and Tokelauan.
Vanuatu -The official languages are Bislama, English and French.
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Quite frankly I would quite copy and pasting from sites that are old and unreliable. You have done very poorly at this very simple job.
Just because countries have an official language does not mean that is the only languages that countries uses either. Most countries are multi-lingual.
The facts are that the majority of all of these countries is that they have several languages that are used on a daily basis and they get alone comfortable with that system.
Every country on the planet id dealing with multiple languages, American is the only country that is trying to make a massive deal about it and thinks they are better than every other person on the planet. Just where exactly do you think the people came from you explored you country in the first place. They certainly were not born there!
Canada has TWO official languages. FRENCH and ENGLISH.
Ethiopia official languages: Amharic, English, Tigrigna.
Eritrea has NO offical language, though Tigrinya, Arabic and English predominate in commerce and national business
Oceania- French and English are official in virtually all the states of Oceania.
Tokelau official languages are English and Tokelauan.
Vanuatu -The official languages are Bislama, English and French.
Hong Kong -English and Chinese are both official languages
Somaliland - has three official languages-Somali, Arabic and English
San Andrés–Providencial - Creole is an official language
Nieu -he Polynesian language of Niue and English
Guam -official languages of the island are English and Chamorro
Zimbabwe has three official languages: English, Ndebele, and Shona
Uganda - The official languages are English and Swahili
Tuvalu - official languages are both Tuvaluan and English
Tanzania - Swahili and English are the national and official languages
Tonga - official languages are English and Tongan.
Sudan - Arabic is the national and official language of Sudan.
South Sudam - English and Arabic were the official languages
South Africa - There are eleven official languages in South Africa, namely English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Sepedi, Xhosa, Venda, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Zulu, Swazi and Tsonga.
Singapore - offical languages are:English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil
Palau -The official language of Palau is English and Palauan.
Mauritius - the official languages are English and French
Marshal Islands - Marshallese and English are the official languages
Sierra Leone - English and Bengali
Seychelles - The three official languages are Creole, English, French
Rwanda - English and French
Philippines - the two official languages are Filipino and English.
Papua New Guinea - Three official languages are English, Tok Pisin, and Motu
Kiribate - official languages: Kiribati, English
Nigeria - English and French
India has no official language - Hindi is used in most government offices.
Malta - official languages are Maltese and English
Malawi The official languages are English and Chicewa.
Botswana - official languages are English and (Se)Tswana
Your facts are WRONG!
American have repeatedly and without hesitation spoken out on the policies of every nation on this planet and have also invaded many countries simply because they do not agree with the policies of many nations.
GET OVER YOUR POMPOUS ASS!!!
the us need to go to it have other languages in it. english is the universal lauguage across the would.
how old are you by the way why dont you guys put how old you are?
What business is it of yours how old anyone is....the fact is that I have lived a very long time and have lived in 3 different countries including the USA and have a very good education.
my point is if americas founders were english the world uses it why shoild not america make it number one. who would it hurt. our immigation policy is you have to learn english and our history to become a citizen in our country.