President. when you think there are 20.000 Japanese businessmen in New York speaking English and about 2.000 American businessmen in Tokyo not able to speak Japanese. you can see why there is a trade imbalance between Japan and the United States. I say in all seriousness. we ought to be linguistically more sophisticated than we are. At the same time. I believe we should unite as speakers of English insofar as we have a society in common. Mr. President. the United States. a land of immigrants from every corner of the world. has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas. of cultures and beliefs. made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.
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