I guess you are siding with the Catalans that want to be an independent country, then.

Go back and tell the founding fathers of america that. Not everyone in america was english speakers.

They're children were taught in schools that ensured that they learned English but many adult immigrants never learned to speak English. Carnegie Steel used to try to avoid having too many workers with a common language as part of a strategy to make unionization more difficult. And when Norman Borlaug was growing up in Saude, Iowa in the 1920s there were still a lot of older people around who only spoke Norweigen.

yea, when did they make the law forbidding german speakers speaking German? Which year?

I think English was not set as an official language since... Trump?

It was the de facto language, but not the official language. What was baffling.

The line between a language and a dialect is far too murky for this rule to be of any use.