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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (286360)	5/5/2006 12:24:10 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

Re: The fact that they are rewriting the national anthem into Spanish just blows me away.........and should piss off every American in this country. Ghana is multilingual and therefore multicultural, in a way that we, except for first generation immigrants, have never been. When language, which is the heart of culture, goes, then so, in any deep sense, does cultural difference. I don’t say identity, which is something I will come back to, but culture. Serious multicultural education would begin by teaching native English speakers a second language, but that, unlike most of the rest of the world, almost never happens in the United States. Of course, that's not true. We are taught at least one other language if not two. I took French and Spanish. Unfortunately, there are few with whom to speak and the infrequent visits to Mexico or Quebec are not enough to gain fluency. You forget our states are the size of your countries. Many in this country rarely leave their region of the country before they are adults and some never leave throughout their entire lives...........whereas you all can travel a few kilometers and be in foreign country....a few more and be in still another foreign country. Its a whole different way of being and creates people who are very different from Americans. The half-hearted effort to teach Spanish in California public schools results in very few native English speakers with a secondary fluency in Spanish. Why don’t most Americans speak another language? See above. Because we don’t have to—everyone in the world speaks English—or so we think. English has become the lingua franca of the world. One language had to......it turned out to be English. Sorry. Tell me about multiculturalism. (The truth is that American culture and American English are putting their stamp on every other culture in the world today.) No, you tell me about multiculturalism. To you, multi culturalism is the Flemish and the Walloons. Multiculturalism to us means many different nations leaving under the same roof.......what you all are attempting to do with the EU we have been doing for hundreds of years.