Foreign Language: Bring it Home!

Strangely, though, according to the most recent census, approximately 20 million people in the United States are bilingual because they speak a second language—typically Spanish—at home.

So there are two Americas: the first belongs to the newly American, learning English to assimilate, but speaking their native tongue at home and in the enclave of their community; the second, American for generations, clinging to the singularity of the English they fought so hard to earn.

Ne’er the two may meet, it seems.