People coming into America regardless of their minority do not need to speak the English language. First of all, many Americans who speak English do not use the proper form. For example, people who speak English say words like funner, instead of more funny or phrases like, "that’s between you and I, instead of you and me (www.cbsnews.com)". Second of all, Americans are also not very patient or supportive of minorities when they are trying to learn English. However, Americans get frustrated when signs go up in neighborhoods that they do not understand (Lee 157) such as, Korean signs. Third of all, when Americans who speak English travel to other countries, like Mexico, we do not try and learn Spanish instead we expect the people who speak Spanish to help us out. We rely on them to help us with counting our money, where certain attractions are and saying Spanish words. We both have learned this from person experiences pronouncing Spanish words. Therefore, we should not expect people who are coming to America to be able to speak English because it is indeed a free country!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Group 6 Rebuttal
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You should have put in about having translators. I did not see either one of your arguments with this. I think you could argue that if we have translators it helps our economy by out and if we all speak English we wont have any. Lets put into the economy, not take out!
ReplyDeleteI think that the point about americans visiting ther countries do not learn that language is nonsense. We are not moving to that country, jsut visting, spending our money there! ANd i think a lot of Americans do know some of the language such as the basics to get by for their vacation. and a lot of popular vacation spots are very americanized and many people speak englsih as well as their native tonuge
ReplyDeleteA couple things I have a problem with. First is your points made about traveling. Carissa makes excellent points in the preceding comment that I agree with 100%. Also in my experience, whenever myself or a family member has gone abroad to a place with a different foreign language, I have always taken some time to brush up on that language. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I would feel a little lost without knowing the basics. The second thing I have a problem with is "we should not expect people who are coming to America to be able to speak English". It is true that we can't expect people that come to the country to be able to speak English right away, but they better be able to learn it soon after coming to stay here. Even if this is a free country, there are things that even the most unwilling citizens should be obligated to learn and that is be able to speak the language.
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