Listened to this guy for the first time a few days ago. Houston's got a new talk station, 1070 KNTH, which runs the pleasant Hugh Hewitt and (I believe) not the unpleasant Michael Savage, as well as Mike Gallagher.
He appears to be somewhat anti-immigrant. Not just the "we don't want people who are trying to kill us, or who will do their best never to fit in" type, but the "we don't want anyone who's not already fully assimilated by the time he arrives" type. I may be wrong -- it's only one show I heard.
He was going on and on about some pamphlet for immigrants that the government has put out. They asked radio stations to play a blurb for it in whatever the appropriate target language. He accepted English and Spanish as common radio station languages, but then expressed incredulity that any other languages have radio stations, played clips from several languages to ridicule them ("Do they really want us to play 30 seconds of this junk?"), and wound up that, even if there are such radio stations, there shouldn't be.
He's obviously never scanned Houston's airwaves, or probably those of any other large city. Last I checked (admittedly 2-3 years ago, but still fairly recently), there were three South Asian stations (one Urdu, one Hindi, and one run by desi kids who played filmi music and chatted in Hinglish), at least one Vietnamese and one Chinese, some others I couldn't identify, and one German program (put out, IIRC, by Rudy Lechner's wife).
As to whether such stations should exist -- or, more broadly, whether immigrants should keep their language... I'll stick with saying I like it the way it's always been. Immigrants learned English if they didn't know it already, did their best to interact with society and live according to its rules, but kept their own identity. Grandma would be exempted (see also: the grandma in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"). Kids, after a few generations, would probably lose their heritage, but that's just the way of things.
My grandmother's grandparents were from Germany. Her mother, born here, grew up speaking German in the house or in all-German contexts and English outside the house or in mixed company, and married the son of immigrants from England. They sang German songs, made German food (two of which recipes are still in the family), and, with the exception of a certain period in the mid-'teens, made no attempt to hide their background. They would have listened to that radio station if it had been around back then, and they would have gone to the German Christmas service at Christ the King Lutheran Church. They also worked, in English, alongside non-German Americans, made friends with them, and married them. I'd say that should be the ideal form of immigration and immigrant communities: neither an immediate erasure of all that they came from, which often produces resentment or even a full-out rejection of the new society by the second generation, nor complete ghettoization and refusal to adapt to the new society, which does no one any good, but an adaptation while retaining what is special about the old country -- in other words, the melting pot.
Today? Haven't heard it, but apparently "Mike talks about a Muslim firefighter who doesn't want to shave his beard because of his faith."
I like what they've done with the Sikhs in India. Want to be a soldier? Ok -- but brush your beard up and tuck it into your hat, and have both a regular turban and a helmet-turban that match your uniform. (If the rules are there purely for cosmetic reasons, "we like all our men to look clean-shaven" and all that, they can be modified.) Any of that an occupational hazard to you (like a long beard might be to a firefighter)? Well, you take the risk. Any of that an occupational hazard to others, or damages your interaction with them (like that woman awhile back who would refuse to touch men when on rescue missions)? Too bad -- in that case, either change your dress/behavior or choose another profession.
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