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Should America Be Bilingual?
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Item Title Should America Be Bilingual?
Guest Etzioni, Amitai
Guest Torres, Arnoldo S.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedSeptember 29, 1983
Description

This show starts with the narrow question of how bilingual education is supposed to work and how it in fact works; but it very quickly broadens and deepens into an exploration of what holds the American society together--and whether it deserves to be held together. Mr. Torres: "It's the paranoia that American society suffers from with the tremendous influx of refugees ... who speak a different language and have a different culture and who just may be taking their jobs." Mr. Etzioni: "There are exceptions to be sure, [but] the American society is extremely open and generous ... Just let's talk about the last five years--the Cuban immigration, and a large part of the population of El Salvador has simply moved north, and God knows how many people from Mexico.... by and large, if you talk about American society, I don't think it's fair to call it paranoiac these days."

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Place RecordedTallahassee, Florida, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0572
Record Number80040.811
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