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Growing up(as I did) in the province ofQu??bec, you learn not just the joys but also the perils of bilingualism. A separate national identity, revolving entirely around "Francophonie," became a raging issue that led to social unrest, terrorism, threats of separation and a referendum that came within a hair's breadth of breaking up Canada...
...that changes when you have an enormous, linguistically monoclonal immigration as we do today from Latin America. Then you get not Brooklyn's successful Babel but Canada's restive Qu??bec. Monoclonal immigration is new for the U.S., and it changes things radically. If at the turn of the 20th century, Ellis Island had greeted teeming masses speaking not 50 languages but just, say, German, America might not have enjoyed the same success at assimilation and national unity that...
Today's monoclonal linguistic culture is far from hypothetical. Growing rapidly through immigration, it creates large communities--in some places already majorities--so overwhelmingly Spanish speaking that, in time, they may quite naturally demand the rights and official recognition for Spanish that French has in French-speaking Qu?...
...Take my neighbor, a Qu??becois who repeatedly insisted to Tanzanians who spoke of their desire to emigrate to America that it was a “racist, abusive place.” He himself professed to be frightened to cross the American border. (The Patriot Act, he explained, had turned the U.S. into a police state.) And why, he wondered, would anyone want to go to America when Africa was such a paradise...
...first as we all know very well is the hijack of the planes, the innocent people and the death and destruction that happened that day. But the second hijack is the hijack of a religion. A group of ideologically minded young men taking a few selected passages in the Qu??ran ignoring a thousand years of Islamic tradition...hijacking the religion on the basis that theirs is the only true interpretation and using it as justification to killing innocent people in order to terrorize the rest of the world. THC: How do you think this film will contribute...