Dude, there is no official language anywhere, except music maybe, but come on, English is the language spoke in America. Period.
Um, I think you should be careful talking about things you have no knowledge of. This is true for this point, as well as the rest of your post.
Wikipedia lists 116 languages that are the official language of at least one country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages
For example, Dutch is the official language of Holland (along with West Frisian).
Danish is the official language of Denmark.
Mandarin is the official language of China.
The US does not have an official language.
And is English really "the language spoken in America. Period." ???
As I stated earlier, 82% of Americans are native English speakers.
Are you just ignoring the other 18%? That is a lot of human beings to ignore...
Maybe it is easy for someone as closed-minded as you seem to be.
Maybe it is easy for someone as racist as you claim to be.
But if you had any real experience in some of the big cities of America - Chicago, New York, LA, San Francisco - you would have heard dozens of other languages.
This is part of the beauty of America. By pretending it doesn't exist, you are trying to make everyone in the country like you. Sorry, not everyone is as racist as you. Sorry, not everyone lives in the same world as you do.
Yo habla pequito espanol para todos mojados vive(living?) en tejas, pero espanol es muy difficil para gringos? Tu Sabe?
Actually, Spanish is a comparatively simple language, with few irregularities compared to English and a very easy spelling system, as well as comparatively simple morphosyntax. The fact that you said "Tu sabe" shows that you lack even rudimentary mastery of the system of verb agreement, which would require you to say "Tu sabes", since "tu" is a second person singular and it is in the present tense. This is one of the easiest parts of Spanish to master, and so I have little choice but to conclude that you are not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Spanish speaker, despite your apparent attempt to show off.
Additionally, native Spanish speakers do not use a pronoun, such as "tu", in such cases - they would simply say "sabes". Again, this shows that you have little experience with the language.
I see ya Kstone, seems us texans have a pretty good window to watch the racism, . How can some scholar in Japan or England comment on racism when the closest they get to it is watching the news?
I mean yeah, you can comment and speculate, but until you get to ground zero, racist central, the southern U.S. you really are just picking apart words and testimony.
I'm a racist, and it's human nature. And to say you aren't a little bit racist, your lying to yourself... and i'm outta here... I don't know why I ever even opened this, guess to vent, and try to explain what it's like where racism is real.
Um, if racism is human nature, then why do you think that I can't comment on racism since I live in Japan?8)
You say that the closest I get to it is watching it in the news, but if it is human nature, as you claim, then don't you think I should have more experience with it than that?
You are contradicting yourself.
Do you assume I have always lived in Japan?
I have experience living and traveling in more than a dozen countries.
I have lived in the US for more than 20 years.
I now live in Japan, which you seem to assume has no racism, but that is simply not the case. I have experienced racism in Japan, as well as the other countries I lived in. I have experienced it from both sides, as the majority and as the minority, which seems to be something beyond your imagination.
Finally, I never said that I am not racist. I do try my best to avoid racism, but I believe that some racism is inevitable in human beings. However, this doesn't mean that we have free reign to ignore 18% of the US population or to say "What the fuck, since racism is inevitable, let's be really racist!".
Slimvictor, those were the native american languages, and many native americans died of disease not genocide.
Well, the disease was, in many cases, intentionally inflicted upon them.
Also, there was a clear government policy of intentional genocide.
Just because you know nothing about it does not mean that it didn't exist.
And while your bad mouthing the U.S. Govt. atop your perch in the crowded machine they call Japan, why don't you go have a look at what your govt. does to it's own people.
Again, your small-minded assumptions and contradictions make this a hard argument to participate in.
First of all, you said that I don't get close to racism in Japan, and now you want me to look at the Japanese government - presumably for its racism? What does the Japanese government do to its own people? I can think of many things, but I am having trouble guessing what you are referring to.
Second of all, why do you assume that I must be Japanese if I live in Japan? Have you ever heard of people living in a country that is not their own? Evidently not. However, it is not that uncommon.
Sorry, if you want a rational discussion or debate, you'll have to come up with something better than that.