English should be the official Language of America

Even in this response you haven't even begun to address WHY we should have an official language. You haven't given any examples of how this would be carried out, you haven't even shown one advantage to establishing an official language. I will try here to show you where you've gone wrong. "We need to make English the official language of America. We speak it in Congress, courthouses, national parks, and Presidential speeches. It is spoken in almost every store business, etc. You get my point. Every where English is spoken, even on government land. So why isn't it our national language?" Yes, English is far and away the most widely spoken language in the United States. But this does not address WHY we "NEED" to make English our official language. Not once. "If you moved to America you should learn English. In the early 20th century, every immargrant (all legal) learned English and worked hard, and raised the American flag. Now we have all the immigrants (some illegal) who refuse to speak english and still raise the flag that they're from. I have no problem them flying their home flag, but they should raise the American flag a little higher than the other flag, because they want to be citizens of our country. How is this relevant? You will get a job by knowing english, rather than someone who is too lazy to learn english. By making them learn english they will work hard, a lot of people now try to make it off on drugs and social security checks (that's another debate)." Here you show that you completely ignored pieces of my last argument. I already addressed this issue. You have not shown, at any point, that making English our official language would cause people to HAVE to learn English. Not once have you addressed this. I already said in my first post that people already have a better chance at employment in this country if they speak English, even without it as our official language. You say "by making them learn english they will work hard...". First of all, I would love to see the evidence that people who learn English are harder workers than those who do not. Also, how much more English would you like to see taught? Every grade school, middle school, high school, and college in the country isn't enough? This would be an easier issue to address if you had better defined "official language". Also, even though you say "How is this relevant", you don't ever actually make the earlier part relevant. "How can you can compare slavery to learning english? No one is dying. No one is being treated like cattle. Absurd." You are failing to understand the analogy. Your SOLE reason given in the paragraph i was addressing can be summed up as, "since some states have it, other states should adopt it" or even "since some states have it, the country should adopt it". Reread the paragraph I was responding to and you will see that you didn't present any argument other than that. In that regard, my analogy was completely acceptable. However, if you are made uncomfortable by this, insert any law that differs from state to state and you will get the same absurd result. It's much like when your mother asked you, "If so-and-so jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?". Surely, under only these conditions, your answer would be "no". This is similar to the argument you presented. Just because some people do something, there is no reason for others to do so. Perhaps a more developed argument would not have warranted such a response from me. Some examples of a better version of this argument would run something like: "State X has already adopted English as it's official language, and has experienced the following benefits Y" "State X has already adopted English as it's official language, because of Y" Please, in your response, include answers to the following, lest this debate become repetitive: - What does making English our official language entail? How does it change our country? - What advantages would this actually create for us?