The question of whether or not English should be an official language has been a controversial topic since the country was founded. There are many differing opinions on this topic. There are the extremists who feel strongly for it. Then there are the average people who feel that there should be bilingual states such as those neighboring Mexico and Canada. The ACLU who is not in charge of the decision, but very influential in the outcome has chosen not to make English the official language because "from it's inception, the United States has been a multilingual nation." There were as many as twenty different languages that could be heard around the time of when our fathers founded America. Suprisigly there are 329 languages in the United States.
The NEA reports that English only language deprives "those in need of education, social services, and employment, and it must be challenged." It does this by making these services not accessible to people of different languages. They also feel that one should preserve their culture by knowing their native tongue. In
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