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Originally posted by 95fbirdkid: The majority should not have to conform to accept the minority, the minority should adapt to be accepted by the majority.
I agree, but what if the majority is slowly becomming the minority?
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Originally posted by 3.4 slow to go: it doesn't have a good public school system either.
Whatever. Actually the US has one of the best public school systems. We educate everybody, not all countries do.
Why do the high school Japenese test better in Math and Science than our high school students you ask? Because we educate everyone in Math and Science even those that don't show an aptitude for it. Japan teaches advance Math and Science to only those students that show an aptitude for it. Therefore it is comparing apples and oranges.
The US public school system gives a well rounded education to all students.
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I am so pissed off my parents didn't teach me any languages as a kid. My mom speaks Spanish fluently and my dad knows Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, and Farsi. If they taught me I could be pulling down 200,000 bucks a year as a document translator. Grrrr...
As for foriegn students seeming more intelligent, the people who come to the USA to study are the cream of the crop from Japan, China, India, etc. If you took the States' top students to those countries I'm sure we'd kick most everyone's asses in academics.
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[img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img] thats almost as much as i know...my wife is from PR & came to america when she was 15 and learned to speak english just fine...her father who I think made it through 3 grades speaks english with an accent just fine ;) if you dont/cant/wont learn how to speak english congrats on your job working fast food or landscaping.
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Originally posted by Skapimp: There are only two states that are officially bilingual... can anyone guess them? :-p.
id say texas & new mexico
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Originally posted by 57s98Camaro: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by 95fbirdkid: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Learn english!!!!
amen brotha [img]graemlins/rock.gif[/img] , it is our national language, you should have to be fluent in it to enter our borders as far as i'm concerned. </font>[/QUOTE]America does not officially have a national language. Just an FYI. </font>[/QUOTE]this may be true but i believe recently w. virginia made english its official language...which really makes me think because from what i hear nobody in wva very few people speak "english" its more like "wens we gunna go shoot us some rabbit"
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Well, actually there are 3.. I forgot about Hawaii...
Hawaii (English and Hawaiian), Louisiana (English and French) and New Mexico (English and Spanish).
California was for 30 years, but is no longer... it printed it's first constitution in both English and Spanish I believe.
Also, counties have the ability to make their county bilingual, as long as their state doesn't have a law against it. Example: Miami-Dade is English/Spanish.
Originally posted by Skapimp: Well, actually there are 3.. I forgot about Hawaii...
Hawaii (English and Hawaiian), Louisiana (English and French) and New Mexico (English and Spanish).
California was for 30 years, but is no longer... it printed it's first constitution in both English and Spanish I believe.
Also, counties have the ability to make their county bilingual, as long as their state doesn't have a law against it. Example: Miami-Dade is English/Spanish.
that site quotes spoked at home...not at work...so just keep that in mind...alot of those people PROBABLY do speak english to an extent making those #'s even smaller so your talking lets say 85% at the work place compared to 7% being its closest...my point being i dont think english will be taken over by any other language any time soon.
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I don't know what you are smoking man... according the latest U.S. census (2000) 4.1% of the population does not speak English well. If you modify that to "speaks little or no English" the number drops to around 2%. Where the heck did you get 25% from???
Originally posted by Th3 RiCk: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> ^^^^How true it is. I'm not taking Spanish throughout highschool. Why should I have to know it? As far as I'm concerned, if somebody comes into America and tries to speak spanish to me, I'm not going to give them the time of day. Now if I were to go to a spanish speaking country, i'd learn it, but I never plan on going to mexico, spain, etc.
Wow, we got some patriots in here. It's something like 25-30% of Americans don't speak English. Why would you not want to learn another language? Are you so nieve to think that English is the master language? There is no national language of the United States. English is just the most widely used language in America, which is slowly declining by the way. I hate to break it to you, but English isn't even the most widely spoken language in the world either.
Let's say you own a business and you're looking for investors to help you get off the ground. A man walks in with his checkbook in his hand but doesn't speak a word of English. Would you just get up and walk away then? Or let's say you own your own body shop. Would you tell them to leave because you can't understand them? </font>[/QUOTE]
According to the US Census 47 million people over the age of 5 do not speak English at home. I was a little high on the percentage. It's only 18%. It's been awhile since I seen the exact numbers.
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