August 29th, 2008
Immigrants Find No Need To Learn English



One reason there’s not much of a debate about the mass immigration that has swept into the country during the last 30 years is that most of the eggheads who expound on immigration harbor the fond illusion that the immigrants will assimilate—that is, learn the English language, adopt Western and American values, and live, work, and conduct themselves like everybody else in the country. That, of course, is pretty much what earlier generations of immigrants did, and the result has been satisfactory for everyone.

But that’s not what present-day immigrants are doing. They are not behaving the way the eggheads—and the lawmakers who listened to them—anticipated. Not only does the United States now sport such quaint Third World customs as child marriage, female genital mutilation, and alien religions that are little more than voodoo and black magic.


Language is one of the major bonds that holds a nation together and distinguishes it from other nations. It is also one of the easiest things for immigrants to adopt in the process of assimilation. And if immigrants don’t adopt the language of their new country, it is very likely they have not assimilated and do not intend to assimilate. In the case of recent immigrants to this country, it is now pretty clear they are not assimilating and have no plans to get on with it.


This week The Washington Times published a story about the language enclaves developing in the United States precisely because of unassimilated immigrants. It turns out that some 300 different languages are now spoken in this country, and as of 1990 some 31.6 million people who speak them. That is one-seventh of the entire population, and that was 10 years ago. Today there are a lot more.


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