Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100185277

Mr. Speaker. there are those who now proclaim that our children be required to learn Spanish. Mr. Speaker. I thought English was the national language. Up until recently. almost all immigrants that came to America learned the language. English. That included the Germans. Dutch. French. Chinese. Japanese. Vietnamese. South Asians and on and on. So why the push to require Americans to learn Spanish? Why not Chinese? More people in the world speak Chinese than any other language. or German. According to the Census Bureau. more Americans. including my family. claim German ancestry over any other heritage. But when our Forefathers debated this language issue years ago.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans Dutch French Chinese Japanese Vietnamese South Asians
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
TED POE
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
2008-07-16
Speech ID
1100185277
Paragraph
#0
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