Nashville Coucilman Uses Japanese To Argue For English

[Mulboyne]

[Behan]

It's kind of ironic that a person in another language, Japanese, would try to force everyone to speak only in only one language, English. You would think someone like him would be more accepting.

[Greji]

It's kind of ironic that a person in another language, Japanese, would try to force everyone to speak only in only one language, English. You would think someone like him would be more accepting.

But it would seem normal that the business be conducted in English and special language needs be separate....

[Buraku]

Multi-culturalism sounds like a great idea on paper but in fact its just become a bunch of bullshit. Allowing other religious, ethnic, or cultural groups to break away live inside their own little Taberna/Iglesia and Arabic Mosques only weakened Western countries as a whole.

For the Multi-culturalism crap to work it takes responsibility other people have to learn tolerance first. the immigrant groups can keep their culture and ethnic roots but they also must learn to fit in to the country they live. The fact many employees of the medical system must first speak Spanish first or you had Minneapolis cabbies refusing people with beer, pork or even guide dogs because it offended the name of "Mohammed" or some shit.

You've got to admire Japan at times such as their immigration policy sucks, they can be racially intolerant but the Japanese know how to keep their language and culture together and preserve Japan for the future

[Iraira]

You've got to admire Japan at times such as their immigration policy sucks, they can be racially intolerant but the Japanese know how to keep their language and culture together and preserve Japan for the future

Which will end in about 3300, when the last Japanese person dies.

[Behan]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville voters rejected a proposal on Thursday that would have made it the largest U.S. city to require all government business be done in English.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, unofficial results showed the "English First" proposal was defeated on a vote of 41,752 to 32,144. Proponents said using one language would have united the city and saved money, but business leaders, academics and the city's mayor worried it could give the city a bad reputation. Similar measures have passed elsewhere.

I thought this was interesting:

About 10 percent of Nashville's nearly 600,000 people speak a language other than English in their homes, according to census data. The city is 5 percent Hispanic and home to the nation's largest Kurdish community and refugees from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_us/nashville_english_first;_ylt=AncnDgJKiUG57W.tssOKlXlvzwcF