Listen "America, Home of the Fearful (Special 04 July Episode)"
Episode Synopsis
How often have you heard the bigoted castigating the immigrant for not assimilating into the US culture? If you are in America, they say, you should speak American. Never mind that American is not a language. The version of English spoken in the United States is an amalgamation of languages from around the world. Spanish is the principal language of one of its territories with others having their own linguistic preferences. Add to this that the US Government has refused to adopt an official language into law making the whole idea of speaking 'our language' a farcical argument exposing petty fears for the mono-lingual...
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