re: #106 wrenchwench

And [if I may] 3.) there are people born here to speakers of other languages who actually are citizens before they can speak, and whose first words are not necessarily English. They are still Americans.

But not *real* Americans.// What steams the people who get worked up about bilingual signs, telephone messages or people just chatting in another language is idea that non-Anglos are actually allowed to take part in society in terms that suit them.