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Essay On Should The United States Make English The Official National Language

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Should United States make English the Official National Language? Communication is taught everywhere, in every country because it is essential. We, as humans cannot prosper without it. When you take a thing that important away from someone, you are cutting of that person’s voice. That person can no longer say what they believe, ideas cannot be expressed. Telling someone that they can’t speak in their own language at free will is immoral. As stated in the United States Constitution, “congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech” (Amend. I). Linguistic laws, if created, would violate the first amendment. You have a basic right to speak in your own or any language. The United States is a country built on different nationalities and thrives on language diversity, therefore the United States should not make English the national language. Immigrants coming to America would have difficulty understanding English. Imagine how hard it would be for a foreign student with no knowledge of the language to be in a classroom where all the other students speak English. Learning would become a struggle when you have no idea what any word means. That is why “congress …show more content…

Will people be able to talk in their native language at work? Will business companies allow employees the option to speak in different languages? “If Employers enforce English only laws in workplaces, if poorly handled, they're vulnerable to discrimination claims by employees who feel banning their language is a disparagement of their race or nationality” (Flynn, 87+). Instead of having english only laws in the workplace, why not have jobs that allow you to speak in your native language. That way English speakers and other native language speakers wouldn’t have this troublesome problem of trying to understand each other. People of the same language can work effectively instead of trying to learn a new

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