We must also reaffirm that a common language makes good sense in a nation of nearly 240 million people from every ancestry. every religion. every cultural background. every race. The official English movement was begun some 10 years ago by former Senator Hayakawa of California. perhaps the Nations most respected linguist. A lifelong student of languages and an immigrant himself. he saw the need for maintaining English as our common glue. Unfortunately. his vision has spawned a number of specious arguments and falsehoods about official English. which I hope to lay to rest once and for all. This movement is not about discrimination in any way. shape. or form. be it economic. ethic. racial. or political.
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