Do you get mad when asked to "press 1 for English"?

[Zioneer]

No, why would I? Support for multiple languages shows off our diversity, and that's a great thing.

[Zioneer]

No, I see no reason why people who are more comfortable with another language shouldn't be allowed to use it.  That being said, I think that immigrants should be required to learn English because it's practically necessary in order to be successful in America.

Legally they're not required, but de facto, to really get anywhere in America, you have to learn English. By the third generation, immigrants almost always know English better than their native language, even if they live in an area that's kept the native language alive as well. There's not really a point in legally requiring it for the sake of nationalism when it happens by definition and has plenty of support already.

[Zioneer]

No, I see no reason why people who are more comfortable with another language shouldn't be allowed to use it.  That being said, I think that immigrants should be required to learn English because it's practically necessary in order to be successful in America.

I don't think it should be a requirement. People will learn English naturally after realizing it's so necessary.

Exactly. There's no ethnic community in the US geographically clustered enough that anyone can spend all of their lives in without learning English. Some that you can get by in with poor English, sure, but anyone who lives here for any large amount of time (or their children spend enough time here) learns English by default. There's absolutely no need to make it a requirement.

Printing other languages alongside English for certain functions is helpful and eases the transition from non-English to English, but is not strictly necessary.