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The fact that you're one rural American with a degree in history does not change the fact that rural America as a whole has a literacy problem. It's not prejudice to point out the fact that the education system is failing rural Americans.

Also, are you seriously trying to say that "When Google Met Wikileaks" and "Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72" is...highbrow reading or something? I'm a little confused by the assertion, especially when it's followed by the little "what's the last book you've read" jab. I've got a couple of David Brock's books shipping out to me but I'm not exactly going to hold those up as a grand show of literacy any more than I'd claim that the action/thriller novel "Hit List" (unrelated but eh, I do not recommend) I finished a few days ago proves I'm a supremely literate person with a firm grasp on the nuances of the language, or the fact that I read "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" for the umpteenth time a week ago because I like to periodically revisit Crichton's work. Unless you're just listing off book titles to prove you...read, period? Which if so, congratulations I guess, but that wasn't my point in the least and a singular, solitary point of data to the contrary does little to refute the issue I brought up. (As an aside, illiteracy is an issue in the inner cities too as well, which also has to be dealt with, though the mechanisms to do so are going to have to be separate than the ones to deal with the issue in rural America because the underlying catalysts tend to differ slightly for each, I simply brought up rural America because in sheer numbers uneducated rural Americans make up the most of the illiterate demographic.)

>You seem to think English is not important to integrate into our society. You come across as willfully ignorant perhaps because of youth, lack of real world experience, or maybe you are a contrarian. The real world demands the ability to communicate effectively. Knowledge of the local language is important to be able to do that. I cannot say it more plainly than that.

No, I simply live in a world where I'm not going to demand more of an immigrant than I am someone who lives in the rural south or the inner city. Sorry, but I'm just not. I don't think by virtue of being born on American soil that this gives someone in the rural South or the inner city any more right to be illiterate and have a weak understanding of the native culture, and so I'm certainly not going to single out immigrants, many of which who haven't even begun learning our language until well into their adulthood, and put undue scrutiny on them and hold them to a higher standard.