Should we U.S. citizens have to "press 1 for English" in our own country?
tncdel
2012/05/29 14:03:52
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Our nation was founded using English to draft our Constitution and other laws.
If we travel to another country whose language we don't understand, we are required to hire an interpreter at our own expense.
So I see no justifiable reason why we should have to press any phone buttons to get the language that was good enough for our nation's founders.
We need to put an end to all the PC crap that is gradually destroying what sets America apart from other countries. Defend our nation's sovereignty and its borders, while requiring that all immigrants come here legally and ASSIMILATE.
As one of our greatest presidents, Teddy Roosevelt, said:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Demonic Rat Hunter 2012/05/29 14:15:02
-You complain about the absolutely minimal effort to press a single button into the phone for the English language
-You ignore the fact that America is the so-called "land of opportunity" and immigrants will naturally want to join, bringing their own langauges with them
-Being American isn't about speaking English, it's about being proud to be American. If being American was about speaking English, by that standard would we not also be British, Canadian, Austrailian, etc as well.
- Language does not define people, the people do
- It is worth noting that Teddy Roosevelt in his quote also stated "...an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin", implying that his suggestion was not out of Americanism, but out of consideration for discrimination against various groups based on thier culture. Roosevelt wasn't being anti-imigration, but anti-discrimination.
-There is a very large Hispanic population in the US, many of which contribute to the economy legally through their own jobs and spending. If you want to ask million of Hispanics to leave, feel free, but the economic and social implications would cripple America on an international scale.
- You must adjust to change or be los...
-You complain about the absolutely minimal effort to press a single button into the phone for the English language
-You ignore the fact that America is the so-called "land of opportunity" and immigrants will naturally want to join, bringing their own langauges with them
-Being American isn't about speaking English, it's about being proud to be American. If being American was about speaking English, by that standard would we not also be British, Canadian, Austrailian, etc as well.
- Language does not define people, the people do
- It is worth noting that Teddy Roosevelt in his quote also stated "...an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin", implying that his suggestion was not out of Americanism, but out of consideration for discrimination against various groups based on thier culture. Roosevelt wasn't being anti-imigration, but anti-discrimination.
-There is a very large Hispanic population in the US, many of which contribute to the economy legally through their own jobs and spending. If you want to ask million of Hispanics to leave, feel free, but the economic and social implications would cripple America on an international scale.
- You must adjust to change or be lost in the past
-Press 1 for English, press 2 for Spanish, Press 3 for me to give a f*ck about such a racially and culturally insenstive post
Best regards for those with an ounce of tolerance for cultural opportunities and diversity,
Revolution 2012
1. "Press 1 for English."
2. "Press 2 to enroll in English classes and come back once you've learned English!"
"Americanization" was a favorite theme of Teddy Roosevelt's during his later years, when he railed repeatedly against "hyphenated Americans" and the prospect of a nation "brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling nationalities." He advocated the compulsory learning of English by every naturalized citizen. "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country," he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. "English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools." He also insisted, on more than one occasion, that America has no room for what he called "fifty-fifty allegiance." In a speech made in 1917 he said, "It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided to the one flag which floats over all of us."
So if government agencies have Spanish as a second option on their answering service, I don't have a problem.
As for businesses, we don't need the government telling businesses how to run their customer service. When I say I want a smaller and less intrusive government, I mean it. I have no desire to replace intolerance, with another brand of intolerance.
This idea that patriotism is dependant on the language someone speaks is absurd.
And change "press 2 for Spanish" to "press 2 to report an illegal alien [to I.C.E.].
Beyond that, it all is a much larger question of whether multiculturalism is good for anyone except those who want to be parasites of a majority culture.