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Originally Posted by Elphaba
The article doesn't mention to whom Gingrich was speaking, but I am willing to bet that he was pandering to the anti-immigrant crowd. There is nothing new about this thinking from times past other than the people currently being targeted as "less than American."
My husband and I are both third generation Americans whose grandparents immigrated from Europe. They, too, were treated as "less than" because they were not able to speak English well. They responded to their "shame" by never speaking nor teaching their language to their children, and the language and culture have been lost to the grandchildren.
I agree with Hal that this continued racism toward immigrants is shameful, and not worthy of what this country was meant to be.
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Hmmm my father was never ashamed to speak. In fact he inisisted that we children speak English only. It is my experience that among the kids in generation in my family born and raised in the US, those that speak good english with little to no accent have higher salaries than those who speak with accents. Heck I don't even have a college diploma, so I should be even regarded as having a lesser salary.
As far as bilingual ballots, IMO part of naturalization for citizenship is reading and writing enough english to understand ballots. Because of that requirement, I think that ballots should not be written in any other language than english.
Now if you are talking about DMV and the DMV handbook well that's totally different. I'm annoyed that when I went to CA DMV they handed me a tagalog handbook automatically because the person thought I wanted that one.
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