Aileron Posted June 19, 2008 Report Posted June 19, 2008 Well, one thing that is true is that generally a nation needs to share a common culture to obtain enough unity to survive, and with that comes a common language. There are plenty of examples from history - at the moment the Ottoman and Greek empires come to mind. Even if initially the cultures have an at!@#$%^&*ude of looking past their differences, it still won't stand the test of time. Multiculturalism generally leads to a slow death as the different groups slowly show less and less trust towards each other over time until eventually the 'empire' is just a name for a group of several different nations with no sense of unity. These people are the inevitable outcome of trying to have two languages in one country. Keep in mind that when the British allowed two language Canada to develop, they weren't looking to create a nation - they just wanted a colony to milk resources from. The situation is not dissimilar to New Orleans, which was initially built as a fur trading port, and turned into a waiting disaster as it developed into a metropolis. The only thing this group is wrong about is that they have it backwards. They should learn English. Face it, French sucks. They deserved to lose their language anyway for getting their !@#$%^&* kicked back in the colonial days.
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