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Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: Ukraine Train on December 15, 2005, 02:29:16 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/ap_on_go_ot/adult_literacy

How many of those tested are here legally? lol...
Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: brimic on December 15, 2005, 03:06:53 PM
I've seen my fair share of them while working in a factory through college in Northern Wisconsin. There are a lot of hillbillies up there that can't read, most of them are hard workers, and they seem to be doing ok.
Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: lee n. field on December 15, 2005, 04:54:11 PM
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11 million
That few?
Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: Standing Wolf on December 15, 2005, 05:02:43 PM
The People's Republic of California boasts the largest number of people who can't read and write in two languages.
Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: Guest on December 15, 2005, 07:47:53 PM
Quote from: Ukraine Train
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/ap_on_go_ot/adult_literacy

How many of those tested are here legally? lol...
I think youd be very suprised.
Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: El Tejon on December 16, 2005, 08:28:15 AM
I was was shocked to see the correlation between illiteracy and being a criminal defendant.
Title: 11M US adults can't read English
Post by: grampster on December 16, 2005, 09:01:06 AM
My grandmother, an immigrant from Lithuania, spoke fluently and read 6 Eastern European languages.  She never was able to speak English very well.  She could not read it.

My mother, aunt and uncle speak flawless American English because the old lady told them they were in America and needed not only act like Americans, but to be Americans.

I will never fault anyone who can't speak good english as long as they are trying and understand that they are no longer what they ran away from.  If you left a place and came to America and refuse to assimilate, then what are you?
You are certainly no longer what you were, as you have left that; turned your back upon it.  You are not an American because you refuse to be one.  To hang onto the culture you left other than to appreciate your roots, is to be playing false to your ambitions which drove you from that culture.  To refuse to become one of those that make up the place you yearned to come to, calls to question the value that you bring to your adopted land.