JD Vance denies comments about avoiding neighbours who speak other languages, says America needs a 'common language'

Vice president JD Vance doubled down on the one language supremacy in the US, saying in America, English is the only common language. In a post on X, JD said: "You need a common language, and in America, that language is English." The row started when Vance, in October, said that it is ‘totally acceptable’ for people to want neighbours who ‘speak the same language’ and not want 'strangers' living next door: "‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers." The comments were made during Vance's appearance on a right-wing podcast, where the topic of people of different cultural backgrounds living in the same neighbourhood was at play. The host, Miranda Devine, agreed with Vance that people from a particular c