We met with the executive of M.A.P.S today, Paulo Pinto, in Cambridge. The group had a really positive response and had a lot of their questions answered. Paulo gave a first had account of growing up an immigrant in America and about the struggles he witnessed other immigrant families enduring.
Although English is not the official language of the United States it creates a significant language barrier to new immigrants. On the other hand English may be diminishing in importance as America becomes a more ‘global’ nation. This course will explore immigration and the English language from the points of view of encouraging multi-lingual education, making English the official and required language for America and the melting pot theory of assimilation.
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