Alex, I’ll take English Language for a thousand, please!
Are my husband and I the only people who are annoyed by immigrants who refuse to speak or learn the English language? Now, don’t misinterpret my intentions here, my ancestors were immigrants. However, my relatives chose to come to the home of the brave and the land of the free to be AMERICANS and to my way of thinking (and Teddy Roosevelt’s), English is what Americans speak!
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
