Holy Cow! Does he understand what he is saying? How out of touch is it to compare Quebec to Puerto Rico?
Spanish AND English are the official languages. What would he do? Ban people speaking Spanish? Didn’t that happen with the Navajo children? They were banned from speaking their own language.
Stephen Colbert pretty much said it all: It takes some cojones to tell Puerto Ricans they can’t say ‘cojones.’
Rick Santorum should never be left in charge of diplomacy. Was that a little Spanish accent I heard slipping in there?
Desperate…DESPERATE to shift focus away Obama’s record.
Who, Santorum? Why would he want to do that?
The Soweto Uprising of June 1976 was because the Apartheid government decreed that education would NOT be in English. Black South Africans understood that to integrate fully into the society and economy of both South Africa and the world, they needed English – not Afrikaans or another indigenous language. English allowed Nelson Mandela to be able to communicate with everyone and lead them to end of Apartheid.
People in South Africa continue today to speak the language of their culture at home and in cultural gatherings – black South Africans in the many indigenous languages and Afrikaner whites in Afrikaans. However, all speak English as the language of education and commerce. All prefer to have that common language.
Why should the U.S. also not have a common language of education and commerce, while allowing everyone to use the language of their heritage and culture at home if they so chose?
@SlowpokeRodriguez I think the Republicans are doing a great job of that, Slow. Seriously, they seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of the victories they enjoyed in 2010.
This is another illustration of why Santorum will get his butt kicked if he is the nominee.
@Need to Know
Since the two official languages of Puerto Rico are English and Spanish, what is there more to say? Do we take Spanish away if they want Statehood? I don’t think so.
Agreed, 100%