Instead of "EnglishFirst", why not AmericaFirst?

A reader responds to my blog post on the "EnglishFirst" referendum and claims that its passage is right because you can't find a ballot in English in South American and Latin American countries.

And that's the point I don't under from proponents of English being the official or only language used by government. I would never want to America to be like much lesser countries in terms of greatness and diversity of its peoples. So why would we want to bring this nation down to their standards and have a ballot in only one language?

During the Korean War, soldiers from Puerto Rico would be dying on the battlefields crying for their mothers in their last moments. And they did so in Spanish, according to Rep. Jose Serrano of New York. People dying in the service of their country surely is part of how government operates and is sustained.

I always tried to get some Italian Americans in upstate New York to understand why today's immigrants should be treated as poorly as their ancestors. We as a nation should learn from our history and progress. And a very prominent Italian-American, Father Joe Salerno, read the riot act to his congregation over this matter during a sermon one Sunday at Mt. Carmel Catholic Church in Utica, N.Y. God bless Father Joe for his courage and compassion.

Instead of "EnglishFirst", which is stupid, why not AmericaFirst, and extolling its greatness that separates it from countries in Latin and South America where ballots only are in Spanish. And that greatness historically has been different languages in government and the operations of communities for the betterment of all.

I hope the reader would read and understand, instead of fear.