The Need for an official Language

The Need for an Official Language

Language is the most important media in human communication. It makes

it much easier to exchange ideas. Imagine if everyone in this society spoke

his own language. What would our society looks like? Probably not as

prosperious as what we are now because business is very difficult to do due

to the fact that all documents have to be printed in different languages.

Our whole society would be split up because there is no communication

between each other. The fact that California has immigrants from different

countries, makes different languages to be used in our society. This causes

us lots of trouble.

Printing the materials in two or three different languages costs our

government lots of money, in addition, it makes the operation of the

government inefficient. Everyone have to suffer from it because all this

money come from the tax.

Using different languages also breaks the unity of our society. People

are separated by what kind of language they speak; for example, people who

speak only Chinese will live in China Town. Those people also tend to hang

around with the same kind of people, those who speak Chinese. There is no

communiaction between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of

small groups will be formed. Different gruops will have conflict since they

don't share the same culture, habit and language. The harmony of the whole

society is going to break. Development and growth of our society will slow

down, and everyone have to suffer from it. To avoid this, communication is

needed to eliminate the conflict and misunderstanding. This means we need

to have a proper language that everyone can learn and use. English is the

best choice since most people know it. So it is necessary to make English

as the official language.

If English were the official language, all kinds of documents and

publications in business and government would be printed in English; in

addition, all kinds of public services such as the 911 Emergency service

would be conducted in English.

For people who speak English fluently, there is no big difference for

them. However, those who don't know English, immigrants from other