From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 12:03:16 MST
>Personally, I do think that the United States would take the notion
>of new States quite seriously. It has admitted both Hawaii and
>Alaska in fairly recent history. Any new State would be judged for
>admission on criteria like: 1) Is this a stable culture, economy and
>government? 2a) Are these people culturally compatible i.e. similar
>enough in values, traditions, etc. 2b) From a practical point of
>view, I think that the English language as the primary tongue would
>be a requirement.
Be careful of your assumptions...
I was born in Honolulu two years after Hawaii made 'statehood'.
Haoles (Caucasians) were in the minority, universally disliked by
the dozen or so ethnic groups living in the islands, and English was
a far cry from being spoken universally.
Amara
-- through December 2002: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Cosmic Dust Group, Heidelberg, Deutschland from January 2003: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Roma, Italia
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