America is a huge place. In south America main languages are spanish/spanish-like languages, so why should they teach english? Oh, maybe you mean America = United States of America (by the way, don't you know you shouldn't say simply states ---there ara other states--- or United States, since Mexico is indeed Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so if you translate just the first two word, you have United States... but these can refer to Mexico as well!!!!)
I think it is a problem. Everybody should learn more than a language, and of course at least the official language of a nation. Parents might not kow english at all, but children are smarter in learning languages and they should automatically learn the language they use to communicate e.g. at school. If this does not happen, it means there are ghettos, separated "social bags" where people may live even without knowing the language spoken outside the bag. This could be an "american" social problem, rather than a guilt of the parents: it means someway it is possible to avoid integrations... like a "nation" inside the "real" nation.
I don't know how the problem can be resolved, but I am still pretty sure it is not parents' fault: again, I have to stress the fact that children, put in an social environment where the language X is spoken, learn that language even if their parents can't say a single word of it. INtegration can be made harder because of racism, nationalism and particularism
Hate people who don't teach their kids English in America
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America is a huge place. In south America main languages are spanish/spanish-like languages, so why should they teach english? Oh, maybe you mean America = United States of America (by the way, don't you know you shouldn't say simply states ---there ara other states--- or United States, since Mexico is indeed Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so if you translate just the first two word, you have United States... but these can refer to Mexico as well!!!!)
I think it is a problem. Everybody should learn more than a language, and of course at least the official language of a nation. Parents might not kow english at all, but children are smarter in learning languages and they should automatically learn the language they use to communicate e.g. at school. If this does not happen, it means there are ghettos, separated "social bags" where people may live even without knowing the language spoken outside the bag. This could be an "american" social problem, rather than a guilt of the parents: it means someway it is possible to avoid integrations... like a "nation" inside the "real" nation.
I don't know how the problem can be resolved, but I am still pretty sure it is not parents' fault: again, I have to stress the fact that children, put in an social environment where the language X is spoken, learn that language even if their parents can't say a single word of it. INtegration can be made harder because of racism, nationalism and particularism