By Nicholas Stix
The following passages are from a blog item on a “controversial” proposal that city council meetings in Walnut, CA be held in English!
Newspaper report:
Daisy Duan, 27, a graduate student at the University of Southern California who speaks limited English, said in Chinese that the proposal would "definitely" affect her ability to participate in local politics.
Alan Wall:
Miss Duan is graduate student at USC and speaks "limited English"?
Newspaper report:
"I feel like English is still very difficult," Duan said. "I know many first-generation immigrants who, when they came to America, could not speak even a single word ... It's not fair."
Alan Wall:
"It's not fair". What's not fair, having to speak English in the United States?
Newspaper report:
Duan added that she thinks the proposal is particularly problematic in California, which has a higher proportion of immigrants than any other state. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Asians represented nearly 64 percent of Walnut’s population. Whites accounted for about 24 percent, and blacks for nearly 3 percent, with the remaining residents from other races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race represented about 19 percent of the population.
[“In Walnut, California, Speaking English at City Council Meetings is Controversial,” by Allan Wall, VDARE, July 19, 2012 at 12:57 p.m.]
I don’t see how one can be a graduate student in any field, save for the dumb, at any American university. USC and Miss Duan need to be investigated.
Of course, I’ve heard reports for years of routine academic fraud in graduate school departments catering to Hispanics.
Graduate students from East Asia who are not remotely close to English fluency, and refuse to learn, are common in American science and math departments.
ReplyDeleteThere are often so many of them (think University of California system) that they can choose to avoid English altogether and speak only in Chinese to their exclusively Chinese friends and their exclusively Chinese advisors. The undergrads complain about the teaching, but what can one do?
64 + 24 + 3 + 19 = 110
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