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24. March 2005 | Category Rant

Just learned that Minnesota Dept of Revenue has released tax forms in Spanish. Whew! I has holding out on filing, but now that they have it in my mother tongue, I can finallly do so easily and effectively. Good Riddance.

Since when does everything have to be in everyone’s native tongue? This is the United States of America and last time I checked everyone I know and all I read was in American English. My ancestors spoke a different language other than English when they first came to America too, but they had to learn English in order to communicate effectively with others in their communites, who more often than not spoke the same mother tongue as them, but having come to the U.S. used English in order to assimilate into the population. They didn’t have special classes in school because they spoke a language other than English. They learned English and that’s the way things were. If they didn’t understand something, they didn’t get the government to pay for a personal translator for them, they did without or had a friend/family member help them out.

Now you can’t go anywhere without having the fear of not having dual or numerous languages posted for the same information. Why? So everyone can be content with way things are without having to exert themselves to learn something new? Or to employ a whole system of translators to boost the economy? Things would be so much simplier if English was a standard and everyone in the United States had to learn it or do without. What kind of country is this going to become if everyone gets to speak their own language? It’s not hard to imagine a modern day ‘Tower of Babel’. What good would that do, no one could communicate with each other, but at least they didn’t have to change for the betterment of the society. Sad, sad times.

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