And the freak-out continues
Posted: 01-24-2017 07:47 AM
One of Trump's first actions was to start revising the White House official website. Among other changes, such as pulling information on climate change, the official WH website is now English-only. This may be due to an internal review of the Spanish-content, but the disappearance was enough to get the Left's panties in a major twist.....
Trump fires up English-only debate with missing WhiteHouse.gov Spanish page
WASHINGTON —
Donald Trump, whose relationship with Latinos already is frosty, has taken down the White House’s Spanish-language website, and in the process may have kicked off another fiery English-only debate.
It was unclear Monday whether the elimination of Spanish was permanent; White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did not directly address the use of Spanish during his briefing for reporters.
Some scholars saw the decision as a sign of the president’s “America first” message of protectionism and worried that the absence of Spanish will be taken as an affront to the many Latin-Americans who identify with the language.
“The removal of Spanish says something about English monolingualism, but it also says something about the speakers of Spanish,” said Phillip Carter, a sociolinguist professor at Florida International University in Miami. “Are you in or are you out? Suddenly they’re out.”
The United States, whose population includes about 52 million Spanish speakers, doesn’t have an official language. The founders debated it, but the idea was abandoned because Americans spoke so many languages that making English the only official one might be considered tyrannical – the reason many American residents had fled their home countries.
Still, battles over languages have persisted, particularly in communities that find themselves hosting large numbers of non-English speakers.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 38959.html
As was noted on TV this morning, there are about 380 languages spoken in the US, so, in order to be fair (correct???) that would mean the WH (and the taxpayers) would need to fund separate webpages in 380 languages. Interestingly, many countries HAVE an official language - many of these are socialist - the Leftist's "dream" countries that we in the US should emulate (we are admonished...).....
List of official languages
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o ... _languages
Trump fires up English-only debate with missing WhiteHouse.gov Spanish page
WASHINGTON —
Donald Trump, whose relationship with Latinos already is frosty, has taken down the White House’s Spanish-language website, and in the process may have kicked off another fiery English-only debate.
It was unclear Monday whether the elimination of Spanish was permanent; White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did not directly address the use of Spanish during his briefing for reporters.
Some scholars saw the decision as a sign of the president’s “America first” message of protectionism and worried that the absence of Spanish will be taken as an affront to the many Latin-Americans who identify with the language.
“The removal of Spanish says something about English monolingualism, but it also says something about the speakers of Spanish,” said Phillip Carter, a sociolinguist professor at Florida International University in Miami. “Are you in or are you out? Suddenly they’re out.”
The United States, whose population includes about 52 million Spanish speakers, doesn’t have an official language. The founders debated it, but the idea was abandoned because Americans spoke so many languages that making English the only official one might be considered tyrannical – the reason many American residents had fled their home countries.
Still, battles over languages have persisted, particularly in communities that find themselves hosting large numbers of non-English speakers.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation- ... 38959.html
As was noted on TV this morning, there are about 380 languages spoken in the US, so, in order to be fair (correct???) that would mean the WH (and the taxpayers) would need to fund separate webpages in 380 languages. Interestingly, many countries HAVE an official language - many of these are socialist - the Leftist's "dream" countries that we in the US should emulate (we are admonished...).....
List of official languages
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o ... _languages