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Thread ID: 8133 | Posts: 20 | Started: 2003-07-15
2003-07-15 15:51 | User Profile
[url=http://www.vdare.com/francis/official_english.htm]Abolishing America, Not Continued; Official English Will Send A Message[/url]
by Sam Francis
It probably occurs to very few Americans that when they visit an ATM machine or put together some gadget bought at K-Mart or Wal-Mart, they are witnessing the cultural disintegration of their own country. The reason is that ATM machines and the assembly instructions for most mass-marketed products now come in at least two, maybe more, languages. Ten or twenty years ago, that wasn't so. Back then, there was only Englishââ¬âbecause back then there were only Americans.
Today, thanks to the mass immigration of the last three decades, there are plenty of non-Americans here and therefore plenty of non-English languagesââ¬âraising the interesting prospect that some day you may have to wade through assembly instructions several hundred pages in length. The 2000 Census found that the percentage of "Americans" speaking a foreign language at home had increased in the last decade from 13.8 percent in 1990 to 17.6 percent in 2000ââ¬âclose to one-fifth of the nation. The Census also reported that there are now 329 different languages spoken in the United States.
The linguistic Tower of Babel that the Open Borders lobby has built is the logical consequence of the immigration invasion. When there are millions of immigrants, they form distinct communities in which assimilation to American habits, including the American language, is at least unnecessary and may even be counter-productive. It is difficult if not impossible to maintain a national unity of any kind, political or cultural, if a common language does not exist as a means of communication and also simply as a protective umbrella that covers the whole population.
Hence, a good many people advocate making the English language the official language of the country. One such advocate is Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who has introduced a bill in Congress to do just that. If passed, it would require that "all laws, public proceedings, regulations, publications, orders, actions, programs and policies" be conducted in English, with some appropriate exceptions to protect public health, national security, commerce, etc.
So far the bill has the support of 75 co-sponsors and of one of the main organizations pushing the concept of an "official language," U.S. English. The chairman of the group, Mauro Mujica, says, "With so much diversity, we need something that can spread unity"ââ¬âa noble sentiment.
I have some problems with the concept of the federal government imposing cultural unity. The culture that binds a nation together is supposed to come from the society itself, not the central state, but it's now clear that the central state, through its refusal to control the mass immigration its own laws and policies (and non-policies) created, is seeking to impose a cultural unity radically different from the authentic American one. Mr. King's bill, if nothing else, will challenge that act of imposition (really an act of revolution) and commit the government to protecting the real civilization of the nation and the language that helps bind it together.
Just how serious is the threat of linguistic (and therefore cultural and therefore political) anarchy? Mr. Mujica, himself an immigrant from Chile, notes that the New York Times reports that in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, where the population is now 40 percent Hispanic, "half of Hartford's business owners do not speak English." As the Times itself reported, a local baker (himself Hispanic) says, "In the bank, they speak Spanish; at the hospital, they speak Spanish; my bakery suppliers are starting to speak Spanish. Even at the post office, they are Americans, but they speak Spanish." The Census Bureau reports that almost half the city's Hispanic population speaks English "less than very well." The official web page for the city is bilingual and a phone call to the mayor's office after the close of business receives an answer in Spanish. The mayor, Eddie Perez, says, "We've become a Latin city, so to speak. It's a sign of things to come." You bet. This is Connecticut we're talking about, not El Paso.
The obvious solution to the Babelization of America is to stop immigration now, send back the illegals, take a hard look at least some "legals" and cleanse the culture of the Open Borders lobby and its lies and foolishness. Unfortunately that won't happen this week. In the meantime, the best recourse is to support Mr. King's legislation.
If there's any real problem with the King bill, it is that some will imagine that making English the nationally official language will solve the problem of national disintegration. It won't, but it may send a signal that many Americans and most lawmakers are not in favor of disintegration. There haven't been too many such signals in recent years. It's more than time for the real America to send one and for its elected leaders to pay attention.
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[Sam Francis [email him] is a nationally syndicated columnist. A selection of his columns, America Extinguished: Mass Immigration And The Disintegration Of American Culture, is now available from Americans For Immigration Control. Click hereÃÂ for Sam Francis' website.]
Having to select English at my local ATM or any place of business I call really burns me up. :angry:
2003-07-15 19:01 | User Profile
**ÃÂ Tex wrote:
Having to select English at my local ATM or any place of business I call really burns me up. **
But Tex -- don't you know that America is a melting pot? :D
[And who created that melting pot? Largely a guy named Emmanuel Celler, 1960s Hart/Celler Act. Hart had nothing to do with it. Celler was a....a.....a....J......J.....J...... well, better not say it or else someone might say that I am a "one-note Johnny".... :rolleyes: ]
Mazel tov, Tex!
2003-07-15 19:10 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Franco@Jul 15 2003, 14:01 * ** But Tex -- don't you know that America is a melting pot? :D **
I don't believe in the melting pot, Franco. America is only the land of constitutional freedom and liberty when the great majority of its populace are freedom-loving and vigilant white, Protestant Christians. Take away the latter and then you have another totalitarian state like commie Russia or Nazi Germany.
**[And who created that melting pot? Largely a guy named Emmanuel Celler, 1960s Hart/Celler Act. Hart had nothing to do with it. Celler was a....a.....a....J......J.....J...... **
Was Celler appointed dictator or king? Who voted the Hart/Celler Act into law?
2003-07-15 19:29 | User Profile
Originally posted by Texas Dissident@Jul 15 2003, 12:10 * Was Celler appointed dictator or king? Who voted the Hart/Celler Act into law?*
** freedom-loving and vigilant white, Protestant Christians ** ?
2003-07-15 19:53 | User Profile
Tex --
The Hart/Celler Act was pushed thru a Demo-controlled Congress and signed by Johnson in Oct. 1965. Jewish power pushed it thru. The Kennedys -- always eager to court said Jewish power 'cause they are savvy politicos -- helped push it thru.
Bottom line: Hart/Celler would NOT have happened without Shiny, Chosen goodness guiding it like a ship in a storm. :angry:
2003-07-15 20:00 | User Profile
Originally posted by Franco@Jul 15 2003, 14:53 * *Jewish power pushed it thru. The Kennedys -- always eager to court said Jewish power 'cause they are savvy politicos -- helped push it thru.
Bottom line: Hart/Celler would NOT have happened without Shiny, Chosen goodness guiding it like a ship in a storm. :angry:**
So powerful whites like the Kennedys (ahem, Catholics, cough), were just helpless to resist the all-powerful Jew?
Man, you criticize the Dispensationalists for believing the Jews are God's Chosen, but in reality your entire world view is based on the practical omnipotence of the Jew.
2003-07-15 20:02 | User Profile
Originally posted by madrussian+Jul 15 2003, 13:29 -->
QUOTE (madrussian @ Jul 15 2003, 13:29 ) <!--QuoteBegin-Texas Dissident@Jul 15 2003, 12:10 * Was Celler appointed dictator or king?ÃÂ Who voted the Hart/Celler Act into law?* ** freedom-loving and vigilant white, Protestant Christians ** ?**
Yep. All they had to hear was that it was what democracy's all about (aka the American way).
Such vigilance!
Texas Dissident
2003-07-15 20:07 | User Profile
Originally posted by Ruffin@Jul 15 2003, 15:02 * ** Yep. All they had to hear was that it was what democracy's all about (aka the American way*).
Such vigilance! **
I thought you were an unreconstructed Southron? Surprised to see you scoffing. You know the history.
Ruffin
2003-07-15 20:20 | User Profile
I'm not sure I get your point, Tex. ??
Southerners aren't the vigilantes they once were. They bought into indivisible-corporate-Americanism-as-defined-by-politicians as much as any New Englander ever did. Most of them have little pieces of yankee idealism flapping from the car antenna, regardless of how much they're spit on by the thing they praise.
Franco
2003-07-15 20:20 | User Profile
** Tex wrote:
Man, you criticize the Dispensationalists for believing the Jews are God's Chosen, but in reality your entire world view is based on the practical omnipotence of the Jew. **
Ahem:
Media = Jewish-led
Hollywood = Jewish-led
Banking = Jewish-led
American government = Jewish/Zionist-dominated [just look at American foreign policy]
Feminism = Jewish-led
Leftism = Jewish-led
Abortion movement = Jewish-led
All that from 2. 5 percent of the U.S. population! Zounds!
Tex, sometimes I wonder how seriously you ponder this matter...do you ponder it?
Rumblestrip
2003-07-15 20:25 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Texas Dissident@Jul 15 2003, 09:51 * ** Having to select English at my local ATM or any place of business I call really burns me up.
**So does seeing "bilingual required" in a growing number of job descriptions.. which of course doesn't actually mean bilingual, that is, fluent in two languages, but actually means "Spanish-speaking"
So does seeing those "make money at home" scam signs in Spanish.
In all of these and more, notice how subtle but real the change has been - it used to be "do XYZ if you need Spanish" but now it is "do you want Spanish or English?"
Texas Dissident
2003-07-15 20:31 | User Profile
Originally posted by Franco@Jul 15 2003, 15:20 * *Ahem: Media = Jewish-led Hollywood = Jewish-led Banking = Jewish-led American government = Jewish/Zionist-dominated [just look at American foreign policy] Feminism = Jewish-led Leftism = Jewish-led Abortion movement = Jewish-led All that from 2. 5 percent of the U.S. population! Zounds! **
Franco,
The bottom line is that not much is stopping you from creating a media franchise, making a movie, opening a bank, running for public office, finding an old-fashioned girl, advocating Rightism, or blockading abortion clinics.
You see, that's just what we used to do. Do things! Not just sit around and whine about it or make ourselves out to be helpless victims. Next thing you know you'll be trying to build museums for victims of an imagined white holocaust.
Texas Dissident
2003-07-15 20:34 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Ruffin@Jul 15 2003, 15:20 * ** Southerners aren't the vigilantes they once were. They bought into indivisible-corporate-Americanism-as-defined-by-politicians as much as any New Englander ever did. **
That's my point, Ruffin. They were the model or ideal, if you will, and what needs to be rededicated.
Lewis Wetzel
2003-07-15 20:36 | User Profile
200 years ago, St. John de Crevecoeur wrote about many nations melting into a new American race - but the nations in question were not only all white, they were all what you might call North Sea nations: Britain, Holland, Germany, and Scandinavia. The French were Hugenots and the Irish were Ulster Presbyterians. And the root stock remained British and particularly English. TD is dead-on about the Kennedys. I'm not sure how widespread resentment of the WASP elite was among Catholic Irish, but such resentment composed a big part of the personalities of ALL the Kennedys. Marginalizing WASPs by filling their country with non-WASPs was as big a priority for the Kennedys as it is for open-borders Jews. Ted Kennedy promised that the Immigration Reform act would not upset the ethnic make-up of the country. Whether he was lying or merely wrong, I'm sure that now he's sincerely proud of the changes he was instrumental in wreaking.
Ruffin
2003-07-15 20:45 | User Profile
Originally posted by Texas Dissident+Jul 15 2003, 14:34 -->
QUOTE* (Texas Dissident @ Jul 15 2003, 14:34 ) <!--QuoteBegin-Ruffin@Jul 15 2003, 15:20 * ** Southerners aren't the vigilantes they once were. They bought into indivisible-corporate-Americanism-as-defined-by-politicians as much as any New Englander ever did. ** That's my point, Ruffin. They were the model or ideal, if you will, and what needs to be rededicated.**
I agree, but my point is that they'll have to withdraw their loyalty to their false idol first. Some here might think that's on the horizon. I think the trend is in the opposite direction, sadly.
Lady_America
2003-07-16 06:41 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Texas Dissident@Jul 15 2003, 09:51 * ** Having to select English at my local ATM or any place of business I call really burns me up. :angry: **
What is most puzzling is why DO we have to press an ENGLISH button. Why can't those who DON'T speak English, press their OWN button.
I especially hate the companies, such as the governmental agencies who will tell you press the English button, then switch you to an English tape only to tell you AGAIN to press an English button. The way it should be done is 'if you DON'T speak English, press the non-English button.
Hopefully, the legislation will go through to make English the official language. But, I doubt it because this was talked about almost 20 years ago. I hope my doubts will dissipate and we see it finally pushed through.
Lady
Texas Dissident
2003-07-16 18:13 | User Profile
wintermute,
Much to digest there in your reply and I thank you for it. I'll work up a response soon.
Faust
2003-07-16 22:54 | User Profile
My only thought on Official English: [SIZE=3]Too little; too late![/SIZE]
N.B. Forrest
2003-07-17 08:58 | User Profile
A first-class jeremiad there, Wintermute. Very well put indeed.
Avalanche
2003-07-17 14:15 | User Profile
Winter, Have you thought of dressing that up a bit and expanding a bit (to remove the forum-related specificity) and posting it at Vdare or VNN? It's SO well written, and SO true! Love and kisses (and a real respect for a very-well-done essay!) Avalanche