English Should Be America's Official Language...My Official Reply

English Should Be America's Official Language...My Official Reply

When I came across this blog “English Should Be America’s Official Language” written by author Han Han, I was intimidated by his writing skills, as I am a simple but straight-forward writer and decided to pass on this blog. As I continued to read the other blogs my mind would go back to Han Han’s blog eventually leading me to return to his blog to read. As I said before, I was impressed with the writing skills. then went on to read the article “What Are The Origins Of The English Language?” and saw that he had used exact sentences from the article to his blog without citing. Continuing, I realized that this article seemed like it did not go with the title of his blog and that the main point in the article “is” about the origin of English with a small paragraph saying that English should be America’s official language and subsequently, gave a bit more info.

Han also threw my understanding of his blog as the title should have including the word “business” so that it is not confused with the title in general. His blog was pointed more on the economic interest and once again confused me when he wrote a quote by right-wing Kenneth Blackwell stating “ If you care about a child in America today, then you want that child to be able to speak English”, then it would probably become a personal opinion which would introduce an argument and change the face of his paper and the connection would take a while to fuse, reminds me of the straw man theory. I did not go into the reasons why English should or should not be an official language as his main intent was as in a business aspect and did not seem that an pro and con was introduced so I treated the blog as a research paper, there was no personal view noted. Overall, Han did a great job in his writing (technical)  and his knowledge on the subject was stellar but as I mentioned, I felt it was more of a research paper. 

I was very reluctant in participating in this assignment and hope you take this as constructive criticism (from a novice) and that my words were not meant to hurt you or to anger you.” Perception is a vital component in understanding and communicating, we see what the other does not”(Carolynn Vargas) 

"Excuse me, do you have any spare change"?

     Wealth is defined as a “great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches”^[1]  however, this is how I see wealth for all of us. First, we have “Old Money Wealth” like the Vanderbilts where money is inherited, then we have “New Wealth” like Oprah Winfrey a successful African American media mogul. Secondly, we have” Just Enough Wealth” with the middle class who both the rich and poor depend on to keep the economy growing to paying higher taxes to provide social programs and such, then we have “I Ain’t Got No Money Wealth” which is self-explanatory. Having said that, at which point does the inequality distribution of wealth come into play? How or can this inequality be changed? Is it possible?

     Unequal Distribution of Wealth is how income is unevenly distributed among a population that causes income disparity. In 2017 the wealth distribution in the United States is as follows: “Top 1%  have more wealth than the bottom 90% of people. The cause of inequality is that the U.S. went from a manufactured-based economy (food, computer, electronics etc.) to a Service-based economy (healthcare, media, sports etc.) and are reaping the benefits of being wealthy. This transition has made life hard for us bottom feeders and with no opportunity to have a piece of the pie. This transition also brings jobs that require highly educated people to work for a huge corporation, leaving a regular Joe with no chance of employment. A large percentage of the poor population is not given the option of attending college because of the need to make money to support themselves. This transition is surely causing the slow death of social mobility. How can we fix this?

     We must raise the minimum wage, have access to affordable and quality education, subsidies for training, loan programs for people wanting to start a business. We also need to invest in women and combat discrimination in the way of thinking that “women are meant to be housewives” and if they have children, we can implement a program for childcare. Implementing these changes will not get far in our government because along with being wealthy they have access to the government. These corporations make huge donations to parties that will side with their wants, it’s like a “money talks bullshit walks” kind of thing. But will it work?

     No, my ideas would not work because most of the wealthy are selfish and will try hard to keep this capitalist country the same, all because of the Benjamin’s. What the hell are they going to do with all that money? They will pass it down to their offspring and the pattern will continue. This inequality has been happening since the day American was formed and I do not see change. I read that some billionaires pledge to donate their fortunes to charity. If you happen to become a millionaire, think altruism, it’s good for your soul.