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The present condition of the United States of America is a scene of a disjointed nation. The population of the country has constructed a barrier between its citizens that is deeply rooted between heritage and language. There are commonalities distinguished among the citizens of a nation by addressing their way of life. These ties are quickly being broken due to the problems being established between English-speaking citizens and the many immigrants who are recently citizens. The United States are commonly referred to as a melting pot due to the many backgrounds seen in each community however, this situation can be dangerous. If we keep accepting more and more languages and ways of life into the American culture than the true heritage of the states will be lost. The simplest solution to restore the unity of the country would be to create a common bond between all its citizens. This bond would not only restore the sense of community to the country and destroy the barriers but many problems being faced because of this multi-lingual society would be remedied. This simple solution would be to declare English as the official language of the United States and create the absolute need to learn and speak it fluently.
With the presence of a common language a sense of national unity would be established and the country would become more effective with everyday business. The population of the United States grows every year with the statistics of new births but also with the rise in immigrant population. The illegal immigrate population has now risen to over five million (Zebrowski) which creates these distinct differences between natural born citizens and citizen immigrants. It cannot be said that these differences would be eliminated due to a single language being but they would be greatly depreciated. The language barriers would be broken and a greater percent of the population would be able to communicate with each other. A startling fact of the country is...

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