Sunday, May 20, 2018

FYI: English isn't the official language of the United States

Thang Duong

Aaron Schlossberg, a lawyer in New York, was the subject of a viral video last week after he was caught on camera berating staff members of a restaurant for speaking Spanish with customers. However it might be news to him that nothing in the Constitution or any federal law supports his comment that "they should be speaking English because "this is America". In the fact, US has no official language. Dr. Wayne Wright, a professor of language and literacy at Purdue University said that " Due to the evident in the case of the New York lawyer who threatened to call US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the restaurant workers, he equated speaking Spanish with illegal immigration".

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/english-us-official-language-trnd/index.html

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