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> you shouldn't expect government services to be in a foreign language

But that's the thing about America. We don't have ein Volk. Or to put it another way, what does foreign mean to a nation like America? Lots of languages are spoken natively in America. That most people speak English is an accident of history and a matter of convention reinforced by bigots trying to "other" their neighbors. Americans could have just as easily ended up mostly speaking German.



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