America Doesn’t Have a Language Problem. It Has a Common Sense Problem.

Let’s be real.

Every time someone performs in another language — like Spanish at the Super Bowl — people start yelling, “This is America. Speak English.”

That argument sounds loud.

But it’s not smart.

First fact: The United States has no official national language at the federal level. Look it up. English is widely spoken, yes — but it is not legally declared the country’s official language.

Second fact: English did not start in America.

Before English was ever spoken here, over 300 Indigenous languages were spoken across this land. Navajo. Cherokee. Lakota. Hundreds more.

Spanish has been spoken in parts of what is now the United States since the 1500s — long before the Pilgrims arrived.

Now let’s define English.

The word “English” comes from the Old English word Englisc, meaning “of the Angles.” The Angles were a Germanic tribe that migrated to Britain in the 5th century. The language is literally named after migrants.

Let that sink in.

English itself is not “pure.” Nearly 60% of modern English vocabulary comes from Latin and French influence. It’s a blended language shaped by invasion, colonization, trade, and cultural mixing.

So when someone says, “Speak English, this is America,” what they’re really saying is:

“Speak a hybrid language created by migrants, influenced by multiple cultures, on land that originally spoke hundreds of other languages.”

That’s not common sense.

That’s selective memory.

And for the people who say, “If you don’t speak English, go back where you came from” — let’s think critically.

America is a nation of immigrants.

Unless you are Indigenous to this land, your ancestors came from somewhere else.

And when they came here?

They didn’t speak English either.

Europeans spoke Germanic dialects, French, Spanish, Dutch. Africans brought Yoruba, Igbo, Mandinka, Wolof — languages that were violently stripped away through slavery. Indigenous nations had their own languages long before colonization.

So mocking someone for speaking another language in America shows a lack of historical understanding.

It’s not patriotic.

It’s uninformed.

You don’t have to like every artist.

You don’t have to understand every culture.

But saying America should only sound one way ignores what America actually is.

This country speaks English, Spanish, Creole, Mandarin, Tagalog, Arabic, Vietnamese, French, and hundreds more every single day.

That’s not a flaw.

That’s reality.

If hearing another language at a major event makes you angry, the issue isn’t the performance.

It’s that you were taught a narrow version of history.

America was built by many cultures — voluntarily and involuntarily.

And common sense says this:

You can’t live in a multicultural country, benefit from global influence, eat food from every culture, profit from diversity — and then complain when someone sings in Spanish for a few minutes.

That’s not logic.

That’s contradiction.

America doesn’t have a language problem.

It has an accountability problem.

And until we understand our own history, we’ll keep arguing about performances instead of progress.

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