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Summary Of In Plain English Let's Make It Official

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Second, there a ton of Spanish speaking people in the USA and especially in the California. So the author Charles Krauthammer states his worry is about Spanish being the “official” language of the USA rather than “English”, which is fair because more and more people migrate from Mexico to the United States and now-a-days even in schools, they teach Spanish. The fear is growing by each passing day. In the article “In Plain English: Let’s Make it Official” by Charles Krauthammer, tells that: “Growing rapidly through immigration, it creates large communities—in some places already majorities—so overwhelmingly Spanish speaking that, in time, they may quite naturally demand the rights and official recognition for Spanish that French has in French-speaking
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