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Speaker. a majority in every American ethnic group recognizes the vital importance of the English language to be successful in America. The Latino National Political Survey released on December 15. 1992 showed that over 90 percent of Hispanics nationwide agreed that all U.S. residents should learn English. Further. a recent San Francisco Chronicle poll found that 90 percent of Filipinos. 78 percent of Chinese and almost 70 percent of Hispanic immigrants in California support declaring English as our official language. Thomas Sowell. in his book "Inside American Education." cited numerous surveys proving that the great majority of Hispanic parentsmore than threefourths of MexicanAmerican parents and more than fourfifths of CubanAmerican parentsare opposed to the teaching of Spanish in the schools at the expense of English. The Latino National Political Survey found a similar result. If immigrants have not changed. then what has changed? I would suggest. Mr.