The Learning English Advocates Drive opposes bilingual education and admits it receives financial support from two English-only organizations. This list of examples can be expanded daily as Americans express their concerns over what they view as the diminishing status of English as the cement which holds our society together. City ordinances controlling use of foreign languages on commercial signs are one manifestation of a social insecurity about national identity based on language as an integral part of culture. Somehow Americans feel that all racial and ethnic problems will disappear if everyone speaks and writes English. As a nation of immigrants, we seem to very easily forget that many Americans have always expressed themselves best in the language of their homelands.
Accents disappear naturally in new generations.
Discrimination based on language is xenophobic whether it controls public discourse, documents or commercial signs. Dunn, A. Chinese sign stolen from San Marino realty office. Enriquez, S. Bonuses threatened by bilingual policy rift. Gardena Municipal Code. Hudson, B. Monterey Park ends sign debate with compromise.