Perry voices support for English as the national language

[Ken Burch]

58. OK...it's a good idea...and almost all immigrants do it on their own

Nobody NEEDS to be pressured or coerced into it. And it doesn't harm anything to have things like,

say, bilingual ballots, so that people who are here and are becoming part of this country can have a

a real say in how it's run as soon as possible.

And I didn't use the word racism...you inferred it...Anglocentrism would be a better term.

It's still based on a pointless fixation with forcing everybody to conform to the ways of the

dominant cultural group, even if this means that everybody else is made to feel culturally

inferior and is forced to lose large chunks of their soul in the process of this pointless, forced

conformity.

What's so terrible about accepting everyone's right to be true to themselves and to believe in the

validity of their own heritage and culture? Why is that so freaking threatening to some people in t

this country? It's time to get past this notion that we can only survive as a nation if everyone

gives up as much uniqueness as possible.