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[Eric the Red]

Bush feels everyone should sing the song only in English...

 

I will bet my life saving, albeit small, that he cannot sing it on demand without rehersing it. f#*k bush

[AR Husker Fan]

Bush feels everyone should sing the song only in English...

 

I will bet my life saving, albeit small, that he cannot sing it on demand without rehersing it. f#*k bush

I'll do you one better - I bet he can't sing it even if he did reherse it. Hell, he couldn't get through it with a teleprompter!

[husker rob]

regardless it should still be sung in english

[BigRedJake]

regardless it should still be sung in english

[tattooedhusker]

precisely

[Chef K]

Agreed.

[HSKRNOKC]

I also agree. That is a bunch of BS. English only.

[Spartness]

Ditto.

[AR Husker Fan]

Not to be a lone voice of dissent, but my feeling is that if they sing it - from the heart - if they embrace the words and the intent - regardless of language, I really don't care in what language it's sung. More important to me is that they understand and embrace what it represents...

[BigRedJake]

Not to be a lone voice of dissent, but my feeling is that if they sing it - from the heart - if they embrace the words and the intent - regardless of language, I really don't care in what language it's sung. More important to me is that they understand and embrace what it represents...

That is more important, without a doubt. But they aren't mutually exclusive. You can ask whether it's wrong to sing it in a foreign language but I can just as easily ask why should they be singing our national anthem in something other than our national language.

[Eric the Red]

regardless it should still be sung in english

I hope one day to hear it in a thousand languages. How great is that?!! How wonderful.

 

If it should be sung in English, they should make a law stating it, and then tear down the Statue of Liberty (which should be done anyway)

[BigRedJake]

regardless it should still be sung in english

I hope one day to hear it in a thousand languages. How great is that?!! How wonderful.

 

If it should be sung in English, they should make a law stating it, and then tear down the Statue of Liberty (which should be done anyway)

I'll bite. Why should the Statue of Liberty be torn down?

[rawhide]

I think ETR has this french phobia WE GIVE UP. For the less experienced out there that is in reference to WW II.

[drewalt]

Whatever, I'm not too kean on immigrants demanding citizenship when it wasn't their ancestors who fought to make this place free. Maybe I just have to many Marine friends that beat that sort of thing into my head.

 

And mistake me if I'm, wrong, but English isn't actually our national language. It's the most spoken, but we have no 'official' language.

[AR Husker Fan]

Whatever, I'm not too kean on immigrants demanding citizenship when it wasn't their ancestors who fought to make this place free. Maybe I just have to many Marine friends that beat that sort of thing into my head.

The trouble with that argument is that it overlooks the fact that those same immigrants can and will fight to keep this country free.

 

America was founded by immigrants. It has developed on the backs of immigrants. Unless you’re native American, you are the product of immigrants.

 

If they come to this country wanting citizenship, why deny it? Legalize them, and they become taxpayers and contributors. What baffles me is that most if not all of them want to work – they don’t want to sponge off the rest of the country. They came to find work. And yet people want to deny them citizenship. Why?

 

Okay, so perhaps they don’t acclimate to the “American culture” they way some would like. Look at what happened with any ethnic group that has come to this country – for decades they retained their language and custom. They learned to speak enough English to get by, but they never abandoned their “roots”. But their kids did. Always happens – often to the regret of the parents or grandparents who mourn the fact that the kids or grandkids “don’t respect the old ways”. Go back to the turn of the century when Irish immigrants came to the country. There are Russian immigrants - the first wave - who tried to retain their language and customs. When the wave of Vietnamese hit America in the mid-'70s, that first generation was decried for not learnign the language or adapting the customs - but their kids and grandkids did. In every case - every case - the resulting generations became "American-ized".

 

If they want to come and work, if they want to embrace the American ideals, if they want to contribute to this country, let ‘em. We’ll be the better for it.

 

I find much greater fault with those who are “generational welfare” families – families that have lived here for generations and who don’t contribute, but instead live off the fat of the land.

 

And mistake me if I'm, wrong, but English isn't actually our national language. It's the most spoken, but we have no 'official' language.

Correct – there is no “official” language of the U.S. Attempts to make English the "official" language have always failed miserably.