Reply to Honest question for liberals about diversity/multiculturalism

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Honest question for liberals about diversity/multiculturalism"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] One glaring example, IMO, is that there is no expectation that immigrants who come here learn English.  While English is not the “official” language of our country, I don’t think anyone can claim that it isn’t the primary language, and that if you want to get ahead in business or as a resident of our country, you need to learn English. 
For our country to bend over backwards to translate material into 10 or more languages is really ridiculous.  It comes at great expense for businesses, school systems, and our government.  [/quote]

Agreed but the market takes care of that. People get hung up on trees and ignore the forest. There is no data to conclude that children of immigrants do not know English. Can you post any link to your comment about school materials being translated into 10 OR MORE languages? It does make sense to translate immigration related materials to be translated into 10 or More languages to cater to NEW immigrants who may not know English. [/quote]

This is not ten, but it is seven.  There are probably other documents on the FCPS website with more translations.  And, there are translations for many, many documents in FCPS.
I am sure other area school districts are similar.  
http://www.fcps.edu/it/byod/index.shtml[/quote]

You know what that is, that is an example of one of the richest county in the nation and its school district flush with so much cash that they dont know what to do with it. So they invent ways to spend their cash whether the market demands those translation or not. Can you show me proof that there was demand for those translation? More likely than not the parents may not even ask for it seriously.

That is just one plausible explanation I could give based on my experience. I am sure some others can give other plausible and reasonable explanation. In a hugely complex nation there are MORE explanation than what meets the eye. [/quote]

The “demand” is there.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301549.html
And, it is not just Fairfax County.  Many other districts around our country, wealthy or not, are needing to translate documents.  [/quote]

Another example of picking a single case or even few cases to prove sample size is representative of the population. There are thousands of counties and hundreds of thousands of schools. The market will drive this business. If there is a demand and the county has the cash to do it else they are not going to. The bigger picture(or the forest) remains valid, these are the trees. Are there any children of immigrants who do not know English? The answer is a clear No.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics