Should English Be Official? English is the official language of at least 50 countries including Singapore, New Zealand, and India, except the United States of America. The English-only legislation is an issue that affects millions of individuals and has drawn lots of attentions and concerns in these recent years. In fact, making English the official language is simply unnecessary and yet may even contribute to negative effects which include perpetuating stereotypes and abridging people’s rights. The usual argument made by U.S. English, an organization that advocates for English as the official language of the U.S., is that making English the official U.S. language would unite Americans around one common tongue so that they could communicate much better with each other.
English as the Official language of the United States There are over 6,900 languages in the world. While English is being more accepted globally as a standard language, the United States has never been bold enough to take a stance. For the first 200 years of U.S. history although it was never officially declared, Americans understood that English was the primary language. English should be made the official language of the United States because fluency in English is necessary for world-wide communication, it encourages immigrants to embrace American culture, and electronic communication makes mastering English even more important. Recently Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi created headlines by saying, “achieving world-class excellence demands that all Japanese acquire a working knowledge of English.” (Masci, N.p) He not only went on to say that English should be the nation’s official second language but also suggested the alternative was to be left behind in the global race to prosperity.
Research suggests that ‘’a vast majority of arriving immigrants come to the U.S. because they believe that this country is the source of prosperity’’. This essay will discuss the pro and cons on why people immigrate to the U.S by looking at job opportunities, family, economics and education. Immigration can be defined as the movement of people from their place of origin to a distant land know or unknown to them in quest of “greener pasture’’. Out of immigration rates, the rate at which people immigrate to the United States is alarming. It is the wish of every one young or old to immigrate to the United States.
Our country prides itself on encouraging its citizens to better themselves through education. (P) While its priority has been high school graduation, many jobs now require college degrees, making higher education more important than ever. While I understand that every American should be expected to sacrifice during this hard time, just as we were in World War II, I feel that this particular sacrifice would put our country in an even worse state. (S) Our work force will not be prepared to handle nor understand the advancements that we have strived so hard to achieve. College is made to prepare students with the newest information possible, so that we can constantly be improving ourselves and be able continue to compete with the world’s leading nations.
Naturalization The question is no longer, “How do people become Americans?” but rather “How has America become its people?” Since the days of the colonies, the United States was viewed as the land of opportunity, a globalized estate that was a safe heaven from political tyranny, social prosecution, and economical struggles. As the United States matured however the tolerance of immigrants quickly fell, leaving the White Anglo Saxon Protestant to be the desired people of the land. The image of the country of immigrants that was the building block of the constitution all but excelled. This paper will seek to highlight race-biased legislation as well as feature critical trials in the struggle for equal rights among Asian Americans. From the 1840s
Summery In the article why should we restrict immigrations? Written by Bryan Caplan. He underlines some of the major issues ingest immigration. And why he thinks there’s simpler and more moral way to solve these problems. First, protecting the American workers from immigrants.
Amnesty is over rated and it is killing our country, economy and culture. We are a country build by immigrants but they did it legally. I am all for legal immigration and even more supportive of making citizenship more of a streamlined smooth process but a mandatory one. Something can and should be done. Think of the benefits to our school and healthcare systems alone if those hundreds of billions of dollars annually were not taken from them but pumped back into them.
Most sources which suggest that immigrants do not help the economy are anti immigration groups and conservative think tanks such as the Centre for Immigration Studies and The Heritage Foundation. The Public Policy Institute of California, which claimed that immigrants are ten times more likely to be put in prison, is also a non partisan group. After the recent economic recession and the threat of America’s economy being overtaken in the next 40 years, I think it is in the best interests of the American Government to encourage immigration and ultimately boost their economy, which should be done by allowing more people applying for us citizenship to be allowed a green card, and thus prevent the large amount who enter
The reason: over 70 percent of the public said that reducing illegal immigration is a very important foreign-policy goal of the United States. Current projections by the Center for Immigration Studies, based on current immigration policy, estimate that in the year 2056 the population of the United States will be 458 million, 100 million more than it would be if there was no immigration during that period (Blondell, 2008). While the research is unclear on the fiscal demands of illegal immigration on the economy it is clear that human service professionals ethical approach should always be geared towards helping and caring for people. Human service professionals are faced with an increasing dilemma of providing assistance to people from a moral/ethical standpoint while feverishly trying to stay within the confines of legal boundaries. A statement taken from the Ethical Standards of Human Service Professionals states, “Human service professional are aware of local, state, and federal laws.
Advocacy is a means to an end or to address problems in another way that we aim to solve through programming strategies. What is Advocacy? A simple frequently used definition of advocacy is “to defend or promote a cause”(Mc Cormick, 1970; Panitch, 1974; Weissman, Epstein & Savage, 1983). Thus, advocacy is about making your views heard; it is a strategic series of actions designed to influence or persuade those who hold power to implement public policies and practices to bring about desired change that would benefit those with less political power and fewer economic resources (the affected group). Hepworth and Larsen (1986) developed a more useful definition of advocacy: The process of working with and/or on behalf of clients (1) to obtain services or resources for clients that would not otherwise be provided (2) to modify extant policies, procedures, or practice that adversely impact clients, or (3) to promote new legislations or policies that will result in the provision of needed resources or services.