FW: Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[John Esak]

-----Original Message-----
From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:38 AM
To: 'Ron Kracht'
Subject: RE: Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

> I don't think I'm wrong about their children and grandchildren
> increasingly embracing English. If anything access to new modes of
> communication and new media will speed that process.  That is an

Unfortunately, Ron, I think there are many, many situations which disprove
what you conjecture here. Take England and its massive Islamic-Arab-speaking
population... or France and its even larger similar population. They have
the benefits that all the new culture can provide, and yet, there is nearly
near zero integration or adoption of English. In time, and unfortunately, I
bleive it is an extremely short time, these situations are going to become
critical problems on a scale we have not dealt with before.  I also include
the large illegal Mexican population in our country in this area...
although, we seem to have slightly better luck in diluting the problem by
not really reporting it well enough yet. People, for the most part, feel
that this problem is border related. Hearing about reality in such places as
central Pennsylvania and Upper Peninsula Michigan may eventually spotlight
the difficult aspects of this trend enough that we will all have to start
dealing with the hard questions of bi-lingual education systems and such...
a wholly wrong way to go in my opinion.

John

Why did you take this private?  People seemd to be enjoying the thread even
though it was OT.