Bilingual Services Should Not be Provided in the United States
Bilingual Services Shouldn’t be Provided in the United States When people speak one language they become as one and become a society. Speaking one language and using the same language for public services unites everybody; which in this case is English. When immigrants comes to America from all over the world they should assimilate with America’s culture and learn the American language English, which is spoken by more than half of American citizen’s. The government as well as the American should encourage the immigrants to learn English by not providing bilingual services everywhere. The U.S. should not provide bilingual services to its immigrants because it reduces the incentive to learn English, creates national disunity, costly, and moreover bilingual education delays immigrants learning. When immigrants are welcomed in their own language and are provided services in their language it reduces their incentive to learn English. People do not think that they should learn English when the services are provided in their own native language. When the most essential services such as voting ballots, driver’s license exam, and government-funded translator in hospitals and schools are provided to the immigrants why would they think that they need to learn English in the first place. In his essay, “Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language” Mauro E. Mujica says, “The New York Times reports that Hispanics account for over 40 percent of the population of Hartford, Connecticut, and that the city is becoming “Latinized” (Mauro E. Mujica 581).” For example when Eddie Perez became the first Hispanic mayor in Hartford, he started to change everything that was in English to in Spanish such as making the city website bilingual and greeting callers to the mayor’s office by a message that is in Spanish. This in turn reduced the incentive of the Hispanic to learn English and caused in half of Hartford’s Hispanic’s to not speaking English. Even Mayor Perez notes that "we've become