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Politics : Support SI's carl a. mehr who is running for Governor of Ca.

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To: marcos who wrote (24)	8/15/2003 12:12:18 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 72

Declaring one language official does not mean that you have to speak that language at home or communicate that language in your school. Actually there are international treaties for protection of minorities that prohibit countries to disallow schools in other languages than the official language. Your question was: "should the state dictate language to its citizens, as in declaring one 'official' above others?" This question can therefore only be understood in the way that: Should the state specify a language to be used for communication between the state and it's people? Most countries have such a specification. Sometimes it includes more than one language - this is the case in Norway, Switzerland, Belgium etc. But the more languages you have on such a specification, the more expensive everything gets. I agree totally with Carl, that there should only be one official language, and that this language should be English. What would the alternative be? To fire all people in public administration that don't read and write spanish well? Dybdahl.

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