Bilingual Society

There is currently a movement taking place to split the United States into a bilingual society. Many Hispanic political leaders are pressing for bilingual education which could possibly mean that English and Spanish will become the official U.S. languages (Hayakawa 72). The bilingual education program seeks to permit non-English speaking children to use their native language instead of English in school systems (Rodriguez 98). This program will put foreign languages in competition with our native language. Good communication cannot exist if our nation has to communicate through interpreters. If bilingual education is accepted, its participants will suffer the horrifying social disadvantage of being isolated and the economic disadvantage of not being able to find a stable job. The nation will suffer economically as well as from poor communication.
If this bilingual education system is enforced, there will be no encouragement of Spanish speaking immigrants to learn the domi...