Posted by
Brerry on Friday, February 22, 2008 9:00:00 PM
At the Democrat debate last night, Senators Obama and Clinton were asked whether or not the prospect of a bilingual society, due to the current large influx of Hispanic immigrants, would have a "downside." To anyone who knows anything about sociology, the question is redundant. Obama and Clinton both remarked that it is good to know other languages and we should respect English blah blah blah... But the correct answer is this: a bilingual society is nothing but a downside. A nation that speaks more than one language is no longer a nation. Examples: Canada, Belgium, the former Yugoslavia, the old Austro-Hungarian Empire {multilingualism here resulted in World War I}. All of these places lack or lacked any kind of national feeling other than purely in name. Immigration is causing the same kind of "balkanization" in the U.S., and the fad for multiculturalism and bilingual education may fatally cripple us.