Come to Los Angeles,
You'll see newspapers in dozens of languages. My wife gets the Rafu
Shimpo, a japanese newspaper in Japanese made in Los Angeles, based
in Los Angeles, with Los Angeles editors, writers. On the radio,
106.5 FM (I think, is a vietnamese station...)
You'll also notice that governmental notices (public hearings,
regulatory announcements, official city web sites) offer many
languages, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Armenian, Arabic, Japanese,
Spanish, Portugese, Thai... the list goes on.
You'll see the EU translating for other EU languages, but unless
things have changes, I would be surprised to see arabic, thai, or
farsi on official notices.
--- David Monniaux <David.Monniaux(a)ens.fr> wrote:
Not true. We (the USA) lack an *official*
national language.
Depending
on the state, 1-5 languages are used. Compare to
the EU.
Come on. All official sites, all political debates, all major news
etc.
are in English. Can a latino legislator do a speech in Spanish in
the
Capitol US? I doubt so; at least, I doubt it could happen in
practice.
Compare to multilingual European countries like Belgium or
Switzerland.
I mean, radios, newspapers etc. for immigrant communities also
exist in
Europe. Go to Paris, you'll see Chinese and Arabic newspapers,
Arabic
radios.
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