Response to the following :
The business and professional community learned there was a lot at stake if the English-only policy were made law. Although the proposed restrictions on other languages are often trivial in practice, it expresses a spirit of intolerance and was offensive to corporations and businesses that has employees who were ethnic minorities - immigrant and otherwise - who feel their patriotism was being impugned and their culture denigrated.
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