Thanks for your input. I'm right-of-center. I believe that there should be an official national language and that it should be English. I don't care if someone speaks a different language at home; in fact I encourage it. I'd love to see study of a foreign language be a four year requirement in HS--it helps with pattern recognition. Oh, and I was a Romance Language major in college, and possess graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago. Gee, you seem to know all about what those of us right-of-center think. And which one of us is debating from a stance of prejudice and ignorance?
Yikes. Finally watched that video. I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment that you should learn the language of the native culture when you move to another country (hell - I wouldn't expect to move to Italy and not learn Italian), but what an absolute joke of a video. If that chick has a college degree, I'd be absolutely shocked. America - the land of opportunity. You too can work as a cashier at Wal-Mart and also star in a xenophobic YouTube music video. -Pop
You apparently see very little except for cliches and stereotypes. I've studied 3 different languages myself, and would encourage everyone to learn a second language. But that is hardly the point. The point is that there should be an official language in the U.S. to keep us from splintering into a thousand different factions and balkanized states. It's good for immigrants, it's good for the rest of us, and it's good for the entire country. I have a Ph.D., so I guess I agree with you. Oops, did I shatter your stereotype?
That wasn't the point of my post. It was celebrating the irony that the person who advanced the argument that all people right-of-center aren't interested in education or other cultures possessed an ignorance and a bigotry beyond measure. As for HS requirements, it's been a couple of decades since I've checked them. Foreign languages weren't a requirement when I went. If it's changed, that makes me happy.
Shooter, don't you realize that all those right of center are ignorant, bigoted, uneducated and full of hate?
Oh, no, she doesn't have a college degree!! Let's kick her out of the country right now. She couldn't possibly know what she's talking about if she hasn't been to college . . . Talk about arrogant elitism. You've got it in spades.
You can call me an elitist all you want, but that video screams "dumb white trash." You, on the other hand, looked at her tits, considered her fuckable, saw the American flag, jizzed in your pants, and then became this woman's biggest stalker. I'm an elitist, and you're shallow and completely removed from reality. High five. -Pop
Where I went to HS, there weren't even any offered, much less required. And we had to walk to school in the snow, etc. Aren't such requirements a state/local decision, though? Seems like language requirements could vary from place to place. barfo
When I went to HS in the 80s, the requirements were just silly. Four years of English, three years of Social Studies, one year of Math, one year of Science and TWO YEARS OF PE! Like I said, I really do hope times have changed.
When I went to high school in California (in the '90s), there was a requirement of three years of foreign language, four years of math, four years of science, four years of social studies, four years of English...and two years of PE.
Ah, so that's what got you so angry. You saw an attractive woman who wasn't a liberal, and it made you furious.
Actually ... [wait for it, because this is going to sound elitist] ... I didn't find that woman from the video attractive. 45-year-old women with feathered hair and saggy boobs don't do it for me. -Pop
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Dagnabit, now I'm hating myself. Maybe b/c I'm educated. Can you be a self-bigot? And what the heck is "center", nowadays. And I can't speak intelligently about other states, but 50% of WA high school students didn't pass the English section of the WASL before they graduated. It could, I suppose, be b/c they're too busy learning other languages and becoming more cosmopolitan, but I doubt it. I thk itz bc txt is da nu lang.
Is that why http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/cde.gradrateII.pdf If you get a chance, check out table II on page 5. WA, to be fair, is at 62% by the same calculations. Best? NJ, at 87%
