If ‘bilingualism poses “long-term dangers to the fabric of our nation”‘ (via Unze Toal), then less national fabric might be just what the USA needs. Never did like all those flags.
(I was talking to this gentleman the other day about this kind of stuff. His mum speaks one language, his dad another, they communicate in a third, and, including Spanish, Catalan and some Arabic, he now speaks a total of eight languages. It’s not hard to figure that 10-15 years down the line he’d be a natural conservative voter–if conservatives weren’t prone to saying such stupid things.)
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