“No immigrant presumes to make the demand that the state grant special status to his language. He may speak it in the street and proudly teach it to his children, but he knows that his future and certainly theirs lie inevitably in learning English as the gateway to American life” (Krauthammer).
Today we live in a diverse and globalized world; now many people who are in different places can interact with each other. Many people move to different places to settle and as they settle in different places, great concern with many people is their language. How should one interact with another? Should he learn the language of the other person? Or should the other person learn his language? These questions still sir debates in the United States of America. For ages English has served as the language of the land. To change the language in the United States would mean definite abolition of a working system. The United States should make English the official language because nothing has really changed in America about immigration. If English is not made the official language, bilingual education could really hamper the already functional language system and if we open our eyes to see what is going on around the world, we can see that English is gaining a trend as a global language.
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