Response paper #3

Public Space
Walking through the halls in high school it is incredibly obvious that we are not a nation of one or two nationalities, but many. When looking at the incredible diversity that there is today it is no wonder that there has been so much progress in the last fifty years towards racial equality. In a nation that is steadily becoming more and more diverse, it becomes noted that the common language while it may still be English it is becoming more and more difficult to communicate with each other as we become more and more culturally diverse. While there is the issue of public space and what is acceptable or not acceptable in regards to one’s own language preference I think that it is imparative that there be some common ground.
Today our nation is faced with the issue of should there be a national language, and the answer is most definitely yes. With out the common grounds with language we are not a nation united but a nation divided into multiple different nationalitys. Until there is that common ground of being able to communicate with one another flawlessly and living together we will never have the unity that we strive for day in and day out.
The issue then comes into play of public space. Public space is the area where anything is acceptable when it comes to languages. That is perfectly acceptable. The issue at hand is not whether or not people are communicating with friends and family via Spanish, German, or French; however the issue comes in when there is no common ground between all of these, and there can be no cross over to communicate with those outside the specific nationalities. Public space is just that public space. People do have the freedom of speech, and they are free to what ever speech that may be. When it comes into an issue of communicating ones needs to another, there is the point when there needs to be some common ground.
Nationality is what makes the United States superior to the rest because in quantity we have the greatest amount of people and the widest variety of the world’s different nationalities and ethnic diversities. While we do have the most diverse crowd, we have the lowest quality of nationality, being that we struggle communicating with one another. Until there is the commonality of understanding a national language and being able to communicate with one another fluently there with never be a greater sense of nationality. It has been said that “United we stand, divide we fall”, we truly are divided, and currently we are falling, if we do not figure this issue out we are headed for disaster.