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Thank you very much. So 92 languages. I was way off and I appreciate your help.

Remember when the 1880s-1920s immigrants struggled through night school after a 10 hour manual labor work day to master English and learn all they could?

Baseball players don’t even bother to learn English beyond some broken phrases for an interviewer, with millions of our dollars and 5 months a year with no work at all to do.

Did the early immigrants get to press 2 or 3 or 4 for their native language on the dial phone and get a special counselor at the DMV ,hospitals,banks and post offices to assist them (or get sued?). No.

When Americans go to China,Iran,Uzbekistan,Bangladesh or Seychelle everyone sets up assistance in English for them and helps them all the time, right? No.

To our honored newcomers the immigrants:
Learn English. Speak English or get out. How’s that for being tolerant?

When Iwas a visiting professor in Turkey, the whole university was taught in English. However, the instant I stepped out the gate at the end of the day, I had to speak Turkish to get anything done. I never became really fluent in Turkish, but I figured it was their country, not mine, and I was the one who had to adjust. So I made the effort to learn enough Turkish to get around.

I expect the same attitude from foreigners who come to America.