Cynthetiq

wyo, I'd agree with you for some things like ballots, since the voting requirement is that you can read English. It doesn't qualify at what level, but I understand that to mean that level that is in the ballot.

Government services? Well that's a bit harder, I don't think that they should spend the money to put languages all over, because it's a government service, but all people who pay taxes should be afforded access to services. If reaching out to them is via their language, I think that's not such a bad thing.

Personally though, I'd rather it be reach out by NGOs to those communities, where the community takes care of themselves. I'm a big advocate of NGOs and that's where I think the language barrier be better served by their own community and advocates of their community.

But when it comes to private enterprises such as printing goods and services why can't they cater to who they want to? So what that Enterprise prints or advertises in multiple languages? What difference is that? If you don't like it you don't have to use Enterprises services.

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