IPhone 4Gs and The English Language

An article about the iPhone talked about how 38 million people who DO NOT SPEAK English, who live in the USA, is at a disadvantage in using them since the voice app is ONLY in English for people living in English speaking USA.

 

If you are here on a "Green Card" it means you are here legally AND your skills are needed and most often that means that you have learned workable English to do your job and function in our society - you can use the phone.

 

If here on a Student Visa that means you are here to get an education and that also means you are either learning English ore have enough understanding to go to school and understand what is being taught IN English - you can use the phone.

 

If you are becoming a CITIZEN then you are REQUIRED to not only learn the real history of the USA but have to learn functional English in order to gain your citizenship - you can use the phone.

 

If the 35 million who do not understand English are living in the USA then either they:

 

1) are too old to learn (maybe 1% of people over 45 are just incapable of learning ANY language, as seen by studies in the 1930s of the immigrant wave from 1890 thru 1920, not a CHOICE by them)

 

2) refused to learn English wanting to keep their "old" language and culture - which in case they should have never come here to begin with since to become an AMERICAN is to learn the language of the nation - English - regardless if it is in law or not

 

3) are here to make money from the USA and then return to the nation where they came from which is not possible to do so. They came here and are exploiting our freedom and opportunities which is due in part to a COMMON LANGUAGE. If they do not care about learning English and we should not care about them in ANY way either and should not help them in any way.

 

4) Are newly legally arrived in the USA - it is one way to learn English!

 

5) Illegally arrived over the past 40 years and to avoid being deported they stay in a community where they all speak the SAME language and never leave - thus no need to learn. Again, we should not worry about them since they made a CHOICE of not wanting to learn English for themselves OR their kids.

 

Over history people coming to the USA from hundreds of nations and thousands (dialects) of languages and ALL learned English after they got here.

Over the last 50 years is the first time people MADE a decision NOT to learn English after getting here because the "intellectuals" have championed and promoted that people who come here should NOT learn our language at all in order to be American.

 
If people who had NO education from the wilds of Russia in 1910 who were dirt poor came here and by 1930 they spoke English and their kids spoke English by the time they were all surveyed in 1930 by the Census bureau - how in the world can someone say that people coming here in the 21st Century who all have at least 12 years of schooling are INCAPABLE of learning or having their kids learn because it is "too hard" and need special help to learn  when NONE of those "special" classes were even though of in the 1910s?

 
They made a CHOICE of not wanting to learn English - so don't worry about them.