The "trigger" is arbitrary and bears no relation to the facts as they exist in Honolulu. The city and county of Honolulu has had Englishonly elections for years and is a political subdivision where more than 5 percent of its citizen population is Asian American or. according to the committee. a "language minority." The first fallacy in completely accepting a bill such as that reported by the committee is to subscribe to the term that Asian American is a language minority. There is no such language as "Asian American" or even "Asian." There are many languages which can be considered as being Asian or Asiatic in originbut bear in mind that "Asian" does not describe one single language. The second fallacy is to subscribe to the premise that an Englishonly election can be and is. in and of itself. discriminatory simple when 5 percent or more of the people in the stated political jurisdiction is of a single language minority. to wit. in this case Asian American. What if this language minority. as in the State of Hawaii. is perfectly fluent in English as its first. primary. and only language?
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Asian Americans are considered a language minority.