Kareen Movsesyan
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

That is certainly true. Belgium’s regional election system always stood out to me as a neat example on this front, where French and German-speaking majorities in Eupen and Wallonia-Brussels, respectively, even have their own legislative districts.

But I would however argue that America’s history has very much been defined by its Anglo-Saxon roots and its commitment towards linguistic assimilation. For a country of its size, both geographically and demographically, I’m quite doubtful that there even would have been a united continental United States without such cultural and lingual similarities, especially throughout the colonial period and after the Civil War.

Either way, my article acknowledges that a multilingual U.S. is by no means an automatic red flag.

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