California As An English Only State

Term Paper Title	California As An English Only State
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California As an English Only State

     Language is the most important media in human communication. It makes
it much easier to exchange ideas. Imagine if everyone in this society spoke
his own language. What would our society looks like? Probably not as prosperious
as what we are now because business is very difficult to do due to the fact
that all documents have to be printed in different languages. Our whole society
would be split up because there is no communication between each other. The
fact that California has immigrants from different countries, makes different
languages to be used in our society. This causes us lots of trouble.
     Printing the materials in two or three different languages costs our
government lots of money, in addition, it makes the operation of the government
inefficient. Everyone have to suffer from it because all this money come from
the tax.
     Using different languages also breaks the unity of our society. People
are separated by what kind of language they speak; for example, people who speak
only Chinese will live in China Town. Those people also tend to hang around with
the same kind of people, those who speak Chinese. There is no communiaction
between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of small groups will be
formed. Different gruops will have conflict since they don't share the same
culture, habit and language. The harmony of the whole society is going to break.
Development and growth of our society will slow down, and everyone have to suffer from it.
To avoid this, communication is needed to eliminate the conflict and misunderstanding.
This means we need to have a proper language that everyone can learn and use.
English is the best choice since most people know it. So it is necessary to make
English as the official language.
     If English were the ...

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