I’m on your side!! I’m just saying that diversity (or balkanization?) is the goal - we teach and support multiculturalism and diversity and never emphasize the things like values that might unify us.
OK. Sorry if it seemed I flamed you; it wasn’t meant that way.
There have always been Chinatowns, Little Italys, and Swedetowns in the U.S.A. I don’t expect that to change.
But people aren’t always what we think. I have friends whose parents came from Mexico and they look like most Americans. Then there are Los Indios, or Indians from Mexican tribes. These people are very conservative in their beliefs and reluctant to give up a culture, language, and political view that has helped them survive for centuries. Muslims from places like Saudi Arabia have similiar attitudes.
I don’t really care whether they persist in hanging onto their old ways as long as they don’t start a terror or civil war over the issue. Many languages are spoken throughout Mexico, Central America and South America, so those nations have adopted colonial languages like Spanish or Portuguese as national languages.
I think it is about time we did as well and the national language should be English.