I find it very refreshing living in a place now where everything isn't written in a minimum of 2 languages. Local gov in NOVA had everything printed in a minimum of 7 languages.
Yep - it's been a long but observable process over the last 40 years. In elementary school, even junior high, the foreign kids had to take ESL and learn English. Then as I became an adult and started having interactions with the DMV, you'd start seeing signage in English and Spanish. Fast forward to the 2020s and the DMV in NoVA had signs in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Dari, Urdu, Pashtun, and Hindi at a minimum. This includes the driving test being offered in all languages. The courthouses are the same as well.
For anyone whose traveled to other continents, the USA is about the least racist, most integrated homogenized country on the planet. At least within it's native inhabitants (blacks and whites and latinos). Now, as far as minority vs minority, that's a different story. Go try being African in China or Caucasian in Asia.
I find it very refreshing living in a place now where everything isn't written in a minimum of 2 languages. Local gov in NOVA had everything printed in a minimum of 7 languages.
The practice by government of placating to people who don't speak English is one of the largest factors in preventing assimilation of immigrants.
Yep - it's been a long but observable process over the last 40 years. In elementary school, even junior high, the foreign kids had to take ESL and learn English. Then as I became an adult and started having interactions with the DMV, you'd start seeing signage in English and Spanish. Fast forward to the 2020s and the DMV in NoVA had signs in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Dari, Urdu, Pashtun, and Hindi at a minimum. This includes the driving test being offered in all languages. The courthouses are the same as well.
And they still try to say we are a racist country.
For anyone whose traveled to other continents, the USA is about the least racist, most integrated homogenized country on the planet. At least within it's native inhabitants (blacks and whites and latinos). Now, as far as minority vs minority, that's a different story. Go try being African in China or Caucasian in Asia.