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Originally Posted by onthefence  how is that? I have Great Great Grandparents that came to America at the turn of the Century, from Italy, Germany, Ireland, Canada (French). They all worked hard and you know what else, they all learned to speak English.
My Aunts husband (my Uncle) came to America more than 50 years ago from China, yup he speaks English too. He also makes a mean egg roll and the best Char Siu Bao even though he speaks English and became a citizen. | I grew up in a town that was founded by Germans in the 19th century.
When I was growing up, I knew a lot of the old second generation Germans. Some of them told of speaking only German at home because their parents never learned to speak much English, usually just enough to get by.
In working on the family genealogy, I learned that the Lutheran & Catholic Churches and the local government in my town were run bilingually until the 1940s when associating oneself or one's town too closely with Germany became "un-American" and dangerous.
Every last one of the descendents of those old Germans speaks English today. And only a few still speak any German.
If you look at Hispanic families where the adults do not speak English, you will almost invariably find that the children do. They have to if they ever want to be able to go out into the general population and make their way. I believe that unless the Hispanics one day outnumber the English speakers in the U.S., second generation Americans will continue to learn English and become Americanized.
Resistance on their part is futile and all the fretting about it own our part is also futile.
. Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
That's why I support the Pickens Plan. Check out the website at www.pickensplan.com. If you like what you see, please join me as a Pickens Plan supporter.
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