You have some excellent points, and I think I learned some interesting things from your post. I must disagree with one sentences though: I expect non-English

You have some excellent points, and I think I learned some interesting things from your post. I must disagree with one sentences though: I expect non-English immigrants to my country to at least know some basics, and 99% of them seem to. I think this depends on where in the US you are, but where I live there are many people that seem to know absolutely no English at all, even after living here for many years. They seem to insulate themselves through friends and family that can speak English. This slightly annoys me actually when I have to deal with it. I know some people are just learning English and I know some are tourists who will never master it, and I will bend over backwards to understand and help someone that is making an effort (when I visited Mexico I know my Spanish was atrocious every time I tried, so I sympathize with them). But when they have been here for a long time and made no effort to learn the language, I find it..irksome.