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I guess the bottom line is that Mr. Gingrich just worded the thing badly. People who know English here in America are going to do better than people who don't, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone, liberal or conservative, who would disagree with that statement. That said, for organizational purposes having a single "national language" would be highly beneficial - or, to put it in better terms, not having a single national language would be and is highly detrimental. I am not a religious person in any way but I think the story of the Tower of Babel fits pretty nicely with our present situation.The thing that the people who are pressing the opposite side of this argument need to realize is that we are not discriminating against foreign cultures trying to enter America. America is, was, and always will be a melting pot of different cultures and we're not trying to change that. What we are trying to do is improve everyone's chances of succeeding and America's chances of persisting. It doesn't matter one way or the other to any of us if immigrants retain their original language so long as they make an attempt to learn English. This doesn't have anything to do with racism or bigotry or elitism or any of that stuff, it has to do with economic and societal solidarity.
I guess the bottom line is that Mr. Gingrich just worded the thing badly. People who know English here in America are going to do better than people who don't, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone, liberal or conservative, who would disagree with that statement. That said, for organizational purposes having a single "national language" would be highly beneficial - or, to put it in better terms, not having a single national language would be and is highly detrimental. I am not a religious person in any way but I think the story of the Tower of Babel fits pretty nicely with our present situation.
The thing that the people who are pressing the opposite side of this argument need to realize is that we are not discriminating against foreign cultures trying to enter America. America is, was, and always will be a melting pot of different cultures and we're not trying to change that. What we are trying to do is improve everyone's chances of succeeding and America's chances of persisting. It doesn't matter one way or the other to any of us if immigrants retain their original language so long as they make an attempt to learn English. This doesn't have anything to do with racism or bigotry or elitism or any of that stuff, it has to do with economic and societal solidarity.
