EL72
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Yes I believe in a "this is America so speak English" attitude. Without taking this into CE territory where it's all conversations that spin wheels....
To put it as succintly as I can, I see that kind of behavior as cancerous, where *you* can say "oh just let them be" but that complacency will snowball to a point there is no more national identity and as much as the lefties might decry it or even welcome it, it's not a road I want to see my country go down.
I won't go down that road with you now but say that I think you are dead wrong about the potential consequences of this so-called complacency.
Also, I am far from being a lefty. In fact, unlike most lefties, I believe in letting the market make the rules for what language signs must be in - not some populist government agenda driven by irrational and xenophobic fears of losing a national identity.
Edit: I come from Quebec, where the Kafkaesque language and signage laws have done nothing for their so-called national identity but create more government bureaucracy and needless restrictions on businesses.