Posts Tagged ‘European Union’
Should America boycott Beijing?
August 8th is the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This Olympics will open with controversy, just as have some earlier Olympics. The controversy surrounding this Olympics is the ongoing human rights violations attributed to China. Political dissidents in China often face imprisonment, torture, or even death. There is escalating violence in Tibet along with alleged genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, believed to be supported by the Chinese.
“Out of many, one”
“The one absolute certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. We have but one flag. We must also learn one language and that language is English” stated President Theodore Roosevelt. Was he right? Should the United States have English as its official language? Would it be discriminatory? Would (legal) immigrants suffer if English was a required prerequisite for citizenship? Would immigrants’ children be handicapped in school if they were expected to learn in English?
