English Please

I didn't think New Mexico would be a English-only state (not with 46% Hispanic and 41% white), but I wasn't sure, so I looked it up. And nope, we're not an English-only state. But I wish we were. I wish the whole country was English-only, so we could stop with 1/2 the cost of publishing laws, regulations, notices, etc. If I were a legal immigrant, non-white/white, non-Hispanic, but spoke something besides English or Spanish, I think I could be pi**ed. Why preferential treatment for another minority (in the case of NM, a majority)? I think we got off track, big time, when we started posting/publishing/addressing/etc. information in both languages...all in the name of "diversity", if I'm not mistaken. I'm not saying we shouldn't help legal immigrants in learning the language...English... I'm just saying we should have one language and help people learn that language. If I moved to Mexico, I'd expect to brush up on my Spanish. If I moved to France, I'd expect to brush up on my French. If I moved to Germany, I'd expect to relearn German. If people move to the US, I'd hope they would think about learning English. By allowing some to continue to speak Spanish while living in the US, aren't we really holding them back/down? My roommate is from Jordan. His first language is Arabic. Should we be posting stuff in Arabic for him and others from the Middle East? Why aren't we posting stuff in Vietnamese, Chinese, etc.? Again, I think we're catering to one minority by posting stuff in Spanish.

Please excuse a non-American dropping by. However, I would have thought that historically there were three options for an official language nationwide:- English, German and Spanish. However, the English speakers seem to have been the predominant group and when the World thinks of the USA it thinks "English speaking". In a polyglot nation there has to be room to accommodate all comers, however, there also has to be a standard by which all things are measured. On that basis English ought to be that standard and everything else is secondary.

Well that's news to me. I thought we were an English speaking country. I didn't know we were even thinking about making English our official language. If they choose any language other than English I'm kinda scr#wed.. it's the only language I know!

America continually sells out to wrong thinking. In the notebook organizers distributed to public school children here in CA, everything is written FIRST in Spanish, then in English! What's wrong with this picture? Certainly nothing's right.