This is an opinion question, so my answer will respond in kind. It is my view that the primary language of a country should be the language spoken by the majority of its citizens. If there are sizable majorities and minorities for multiple languages, then there should be multiple national languages. I feel the the US is a bit backward, being that we are one of the few countries left that had not made more that one language its national language when we at least have a minority of some size, the Hispanics who speak spanish as a language. As it stands now the majority of Americans speak English, which is why it should stay a national language. However, I do feel spanish should be added to the official language list considering the number of people, legal and illegal who speak it in the US.
Spanish will ultimately become the second official language of the U.S., like French became the second official language of Canada, not for historical reasons but because of Demographics and politics.
I do not think Spanish has a high enough population versus the English speakers to have Spanish be considered as an official language. There are about 300,000,000-305,000,000 English speaking Americans. There are only about 11,000,000 Spanish speaking Americans. (Both these figures include native and second language speakers)
I think not, English definitely needs to be official though. It is spoken by over 6/7 of the population!
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