Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:15 pm
IJ
Thats kinda the point, I certainly can't move to Germany or Japan and then expect them to do things in "my" language.
(heck for that matter just try and immigrate to Japan and see what is required)
Yet here in the States we print ballots in other languages, allow drivers test to be taken in other languages, you can even get your bills in other languages than English.
No other nation on earth is so "open handed" with things as the USA.
And that generous nature is killing us.
And its really bad for the immigrant--they end up trapped in a "language ghetto" were they never have to learn English at all.
English is the language of business world-wide and yet we have a movement in the USA to make English kinda optional.
Thats kinda the point, I certainly can't move to Germany or Japan and then expect them to do things in "my" language.
(heck for that matter just try and immigrate to Japan and see what is required)
Yet here in the States we print ballots in other languages, allow drivers test to be taken in other languages, you can even get your bills in other languages than English.
No other nation on earth is so "open handed" with things as the USA.
And that generous nature is killing us.
And its really bad for the immigrant--they end up trapped in a "language ghetto" were they never have to learn English at all.
English is the language of business world-wide and yet we have a movement in the USA to make English kinda optional.