re: #343 b_sharp
Just look at how poorly off bi/multilingual countries like Canada, Israel, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, etc. are because of language.
Those are all cases unto themselves. I got no trouble with English being the official language of government in the USA, but neither do I have any problem with the notion that lots of people use other languages to communicate privately.
I grew up in a household where my mom and grandma spole Croatian, the neighbors spoke Spanish at home and we we were regulars at a restaurant where the owners spoke Greek to each other and most of their staff.
But the GOP is sending a message that they consider speaking Spanish within the border of the USA to be some sort of threat to our integrity.