English or English? According to William H. Frey in “Multilingual America” about 59 percent of America is overly populated with multilingual citizens, which is creating a melting pot. America has always been known for their enormous amount of diversity and cultural background; that has been built throughout history. From Hispanics, to Africans, to Asians, to Caucasians, America has changed greatly overtime and will continue to create a great varied of languages and cultures. In the American community diversity and culture are promoted, yet Americans frowned upon people who speak only one language other than standard English. Although this is true, no one should be degraded because of the way they speak or conversant with others. Because …show more content…
Diversity is key to many communities that have much success, while diversity helps others understand different perspectives of peoples cultural backgrounds. Although many look at this as a bad thing it is very helpful to us as citizens of America, due to the values of culture and languages in our communities. Having many people speaking one language (thats not standard english) or being multi-language helps americans speech capacities grow larger to learn different languages and dialects. As William H. Frey stated “These foreign-language speakers are concentrated in 10 states, each where 20 percent or more of the residents speak a language other than English at home.” Proving that diversity in America is better assisting us due to the fact that we are developing more languages to speak; which helps us better communicate with other countries. America is better know as the central melting pot country since we are a country of freedom. Even though some may look down on diversity and see it as a result of miscommunication and difficulty spread the american culture, it should be seen as an advantage for americans to spread their culture because the American culture is still being