The Ugly American Programmer

I can imagine that there’ll be some indignant backlash on this American-centric attitude, but while others are grousing about it, students in India are quietly efficiently learning English and moving forward en masse.

I only wish we could adopt as pragmatic an approach to default spoken written language here in the U.S. It’s insane that we have street signs only posted in English, yet we feel some ridiculous (politically-correct) obligation to offer forms at the DMV in Spanish. Likewise with employment, tax, and other official government forms - people are capable of reading enough English to get a drivers license, purchase a car, and navigate themselves to the county courthouse or other local government building, yet they can’t handle enough English to complete a form?