Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970190020

President. for nonEnglishspeaking Germans. Italians. Russians. Finns. Hungarians. and SerboCroatians. It is as if there is a kind of racism implied here. SerboCroatians and Russians and Italians are white. Filipino and Chinese native Americans are not. Do they need this special help while white people do not? Is this the implicit message of the Voting Rights Act and the bilingual ballot provisions of that Voting Rights Act? The Federal law still says that knowledge of English is necessary to become a naturalized citizen. It also says English is not necessary to exercise that citizenship if you are Spanish or Asian. This.
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans Italians Russians Finns Hungarians Serbo-Croatians Filipino Chinese
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
SAMUEL HAYAKAWA
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1982-06-18
Speech ID
970190020
Paragraph
#2
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