[lit-ideas] Re: speaking of libraries in the United States of Earth
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 01:36:38 +0100
Monday, August 8, 2005, 12:42:56 AM, Mike Geary wrote:
MG> Yost the Host:
>> You should take a tour of New York City's lovely Bronx. Our "Little
>> Colombia" alone has hundreds of thousands who cannot read English.
MG> So? I don't understand your problem with that.
I still don't really understand the situation -- hence my question to
Eric
>>>OK I give in, I admit ignorance. Why don't they speak English?
which I'll rephrase. I meant "why (how come) they *can't* speak
English" but I'll add "read". Is New York so segregated that people
(other than old-fashioned stay-at-home-mainly not-born-here
considerably-older Muslim women) can actually live there, as opposed
to visiting, and cope without knowing English?
And what about US citizenship policies (knowledge of the Constitution
etc.; we've brought some of that stuff in)?
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