As I gassed up at a service station, I chatted with an immigrant from Greece this week - he has been in the country for 3 weeks, sponsored by his brother. He spoke halting English, but already was working 7 days a week, reading the newspaper, paying taxes and said he only speaks English with his 6 year old to get them both more comfortable in their new country. I shook his hand.
We are a culture from many lands...and have the best and the worse of those cultures within our shores. We are all Americans, and therein lies our dilemma. Amercian culture, and language is the norm. If we lose site of our borders, culture and language, we are dead in the water.