Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s criticism of fellow contender Jeb Bush for speaking in Spanish during a campaign rally in Miami last week was — to use one of Trump’s favorite words — stupid.
In fact, U.S. politicians, and Americans in general, should be speaking more Spanish. And more Chinese, and more Hindi, and more German and French as well. In a globalized world, in which isolationism leads to backwardness, Americans should increasingly be learning and speaking more foreign languages.
Trump, whose diatribes against Mexican undocumented immigrants and free trade have helped him gain national attention and become the front-runner in the Republican race, said Sept. 2 that former Florida governor Bush “should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States.”
Bush, a fluent Spanish-speaker whose wife was born and raised in Mexico, vowed to keep speaking Spanish whenever he feels like it, and suggested that Trump’s idea that people should speak only English in the United States could hurt this country.
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