Sunday, November 22, 2009

Second Source

Tyler Benson
Nov. 22, 2009
English 1101

Mujica, Mauro. "Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language." www.worldandi.com. 2003. The World & I, Web. 23 Nov 2009. .

In “Why the U.S. Needs an Offical Language”, Mauro Majica talks about how we as a country need an official language in order to unify us and limit factors brought by the lack of one. Mauro is the chairman and CEO of U.S. English Inc, and is an immigrant themselves. Throughout the article Mauro gives good insight on how the U.S. has required immigrants to learn English in order to fit in the main-stream of society throughout history. Mauro gives census facts and many other things such as a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center showing that most countries in the world see it important to learn English in order to succeed in global economics and other things. Mauro also hits the issue on how many native born citizens in the U.S. actually are considered “limited English proficient” which means that they barely speak English. Mauro gives census facts to show how this is increased in the U.S. and expresses that English maybe on its way to extinction due to others saying that, “The government requiring immigrants to learn English is oppressive.”, therefore getting a pass because no one wants to deal with racism. I plan to use Mauro Majica’s article in order to show how English is also a hurting language when immigrants throw the race card around and how it is causing America to become less unified which Mauro also explains in his article.