Why Is It Important To Be Bilingual?

America is known as the land of the immigrants and is well-known for being considered a melting pot, therefore having diversity and different cultures mixed in one nation. Obviously with so much diversity of races and culture there is also a diversity of languages being brought into America. Numerous Americans do not accept the idea of America being a bilingual nation because they believe that America is an English speaking nation due to the fact that English is the language they were taught at a very young age but another majority of the population believes that being bilingual is useful and can help America grow in significant ways. America is not only known for being the land of the immigrants, but it is also known for being the
As the Salt Lake Tribune reads “In the global economy we live in, being bilingual is obviously desirable. For example, Elena Izquierdo, former principal at Oyster Elementary School in Washington, D.C., says that the most avid supporters of bilingual education there are not Latinos. They are black and white professionals who know the advantages of their children being bilingual” (Rodriguez A.7.). These parents want their kids to be bilingual because they believe that the their kids can benefit greatly from speaking two languages. They see America is slowly becoming a bilingual nation and want their kids to be prepared and know that it will create more opportunities for them as adults and it will help them fit in more in this melting pot that is
People do not like the fact that foreigners are bringing in different languages and they want that diverse part of America gone. As the VFW Magazine reads, The founding fathers of America wrote the Constitution, Bill of Rights and other important documents in English but still failed to make English the official language. The fact that English was not the official language of America didn’t really matter because immigrants would care enough to learn English or at least have their children learn English but now they don’t even seem to care to learn the American language. English is what kept America together even though it was becoming a melting pot (Turbak). These people believe that English is what makes Americans and want English to be the official and only language in the nation but this is a new era and diversity is what America is now made up of. Diversity is America, different languages are now part of America and limiting Americans to only one language will only limit American’s