The English-Only movement seeks to establish English as the sole official language of the United States and require immigrants to speak only English, relegating their native languages. This movement has been debated as it could reduce contributions from immigrant populations who pay taxes and participate in politics while expressing their cultures. Support for this movement stems from intolerance and ignorance among native English speakers - intolerance when they cannot understand other languages, assuming insults, and ignorance in not considering immigrants' perspectives or learning other languages themselves. If enacted, such a policy could segment the population and reduce immigration and international investment, weakening the country. The document argues this movement fosters intolerance and ignorance in young generations and undermines America's cultural diversity and global influence.
The English-Only movement seeks to establish English as the sole official language of the United States and require immigrants to speak only English, relegating their native languages. This movement has been debated as it could reduce contributions from immigrant populations who pay taxes and participate in politics while expressing their cultures. Support for this movement stems from intolerance and ignorance among native English speakers - intolerance when they cannot understand other languages, assuming insults, and ignorance in not considering immigrants' perspectives or learning other languages themselves. If enacted, such a policy could segment the population and reduce immigration and international investment, weakening the country. The document argues this movement fosters intolerance and ignorance in young generations and undermines America's cultural diversity and global influence.
The English-Only movement seeks to establish English as the sole official language of the United States and require immigrants to speak only English, relegating their native languages. This movement has been debated as it could reduce contributions from immigrant populations who pay taxes and participate in politics while expressing their cultures. Support for this movement stems from intolerance and ignorance among native English speakers - intolerance when they cannot understand other languages, assuming insults, and ignorance in not considering immigrants' perspectives or learning other languages themselves. If enacted, such a policy could segment the population and reduce immigration and international investment, weakening the country. The document argues this movement fosters intolerance and ignorance in young generations and undermines America's cultural diversity and global influence.
The English-Only movement seeks to establish English as the sole official language of the United States and require immigrants to speak only English, relegating their native languages. This movement has been debated as it could reduce contributions from immigrant populations who pay taxes and participate in politics while expressing their cultures. Support for this movement stems from intolerance and ignorance among native English speakers - intolerance when they cannot understand other languages, assuming insults, and ignorance in not considering immigrants' perspectives or learning other languages themselves. If enacted, such a policy could segment the population and reduce immigration and international investment, weakening the country. The document argues this movement fosters intolerance and ignorance in young generations and undermines America's cultural diversity and global influence.
The English-Only movement is a trend which treat to do that everyone in the
United States just speak English and not matter the root of people (immigrant) you should speak this language. This tendency is working to become the English language in the official language in U.S with law and force the immigrants to speech with that language relegating their native language. The English movement has been debatable on the question whether or not is a good idea to implement because in U.S there are a lot people from different countries who have been contributing with the State paying taxes, voting, holding political offices and other things being significant citizens. Some causes for the emergence of this movement and reinforce it are intolerance and ignorance which segment the population and what could end in the reduction of immigrants who contribute to the State to see that freedom of expression is not respected in its entirety. Firstly, the intolerance happens when the native American cannot understand what are talking immigrant people, and they start to think that immigrants are saying bad things about them, disrespect them. This attitude is evident in different spaces such as restaurants, malls even at street. There is evidence that a native American when listen to immigrants speaking in their native language, this American begins to face with a bad behavior and abuse with their words to those who are doing it. Secondly, the ignorance is another cause of the English-Only movement and this one is most important because native Americans who support this tendency have never thought in studying another language or think how the immigrants (bilingual) feel about this theme. Ignorance could destroy easily any relationship regardless of nature. Finally, both intolerance and ignorance are responsables to segment the population, in this case of U.S. This effect is translated in how immigrants would desist to move out to the United States and help the economy with their contribution paying taxes, etc. In the future could happen that international investors reduce their direct investments affecting negatively the country. In conclusion, the English-Only movement is directly responsible to create more intolerance and ignorance on the new generations from U.S. destroying a beautiful culture comprehended for a combination of different cultures from every part of the world. I suggest to teach at U.S. school the importance to know different languages and respect everyone and also how those languages have helped to build a strong country able to surpass any problem and support other countries worldwide.