Today and historically in the past, there have been many different and varied languages spoken by people in the United States of America, but there is still no official formal policy regarding language and language use. Many significant issues pertaining to language, such as approaches to bilingual education, whether or not governments have to provide bilingual ballots during elections, if courts have to provide interpreters for people who don't speak English, etc., have been ruled on by the courts. There is still nonetheless a great deal of pressure on maintaining and keeping the exclusive use of English-only in our major institutions of public life. The Federal Court of Appeals is also in agreement with William Bennett and the New York Times. Guadalupe v. Tempe Elementary School, the Ninth Circuit decided to deny the request of students who spoke Spanish and who wanted to have education that was bilingual and bicultural.
Diversity limits unity.
Language has multiple uses, such as expressive and instrumental functions, and is therefore also important and indeed necessary as a vehicle for the identity of individuals and for social relations of an intimate variety within a particular ethnic group of one kind or another. Moreover, it has been shown that language, unlike national costume, is not a relic of the past. The ability of language to adapt to new and different situations enables it to become part of the vitality of an ethnic culture or group. From the first moment, English was established as the lingua franca of the colonies that would eventually become the United States of America.