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The US does not have an official language. We just default to English. There are bilingual schools, especially in bigger cities. It's typically conservatives wh

The US does not have an official language. We just default to English. There are bilingual schools, especially in bigger cities. It's typically conservatives who don't want bilingualism. Within major immigrant hubs, bilingualism and code-switching are very common, especially in multigenerational households. And most modern immigrants come to America willingly, seeking a better quality of life. Among the forced assimilations (Native Americans, Blacks), yeah, they lost a lot of culture. Many other countries are multilingual and to some degree multicultural. Few are as homogenous as East Asian countries. > Wouldn't it be hard to integrate into the business community if you didn't speak the official language of business in a given country? Uh, so offer free Chinese language schools and economic opportunities. It doesn't require kidnapping them and putting them in concentration camps.

mushbino 5y ago
We have compulsory schooling in the US with mandatory English. If kids don't go to school, they and their parents can go to jail. Also, you do realize the whole concentration camp thing is mostly propaganda to apply pressure to a geopolitical rival, right? The US has been doing it for the entirety of its existence.
- technobabbler 5y ago
  That's still not an official language. What's your point? That forced assimilation is OK because they learn a useful language? It's basically their version of manifest destiny and native boarding schools. Brainwashing in either case. The US has been doing what its entire existence? Propaganda, camps, both? And so what? Doesn't make it right for either country. The US and China are both evil in their own ways.