Anyone can become an American if they embrace our values. Anyone. You don’t even have to speak the language. As a practical matter, you’ll have an easier time of it here if you learn English. But even a common language isn’t essential to assimilation. Not in this country. Spanish has been spoken in Arizona centuries longer than English has. Plenty of Italian, Polish, Serbian, Russian, German, and every other kind of non-English-speaking immigrants came to this country and struggled to learn the language. They relied mostly or exclusively on their native tongue to talk with family and friends,
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