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Why is it that no one has to speak English anymore, the one language that could unify everyone. Why do I have to turn on the tv and find fifty channels of foreign language programming. what are the liberals thinking of? When my great grand parents came to this country they came through Ellis Island and had to have at least a basic knowledge of the language or they were apt to learn very fast because if they didn’t they wouldn’t have survived. Now a days you call for tech support or customer service and the first thing that the automated system says is that you have to dial 1 for english. It should be the other way around. By default the language should be English on the phones and you have to always dial a number for a foreign language. The people in charge of such things aren’t doing it right any way. There is only ever 1 option, other than few exceptions, where you can only get an option for spanish. Also it is the same for Most atms there usually is only one option there. Very seldomly do I find an atm with more than just spanish as the language choices. But the problem is why do we have to have any other languages in this country. Why do I have to read an instruction manual and find that 10 pages of a 230 page user guide are in English? if the product is sold in the US it should only have one language represented. I may not be right so correct me if I am wrong but if you go to a foreign country they expect you to learn their languages, they do not put up multi lingual signs or have any multilingual tv. Why do we? How do I communicate properly with someone when they don’t desire to do the same with me? I think this country is caving in on it’s own reputation. Being this diverse country and willing to bend to any culture to shape how we are we lost sight of the important thing, unity. As we draw closer and closer to a more kinder gentler society we are also coming closer to a far more distant society. Oh well. what can we do.

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