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Politics : FREE AMERICA
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (6554)5/21/2006 9:13:44 PM
From: goldworldnet  Read Replies (2) of 14758
 
I studied Spanish in school. English has had to fight for dominance. Did you know about the eradication of the German language in the US? This talks about WWI, but non-English speech was always discouraged in the formative years of our country.

The most pervasive damage was done, however, to German language and education. German-language newspapers were either run out of business or chose to quietly close their doors. German-language books were burned, and Americans who spoke German were threatened with violence or boycotts. German-language classes, until then a common part of the public-school curriculum, were discontinued and, in many areas, outlawed entirely. None of these institutions ever fully recovered, and the centuries-old tradition of German language and literature in the United States was pushed to the margins of national life, and in many places effectively ended.

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