The "recovery" of Hebrew in Palestine (to become Israel) was a component in an extremely focused and deliberated "Petrie dish" that presumed a fairly coherent commonality, the cohort of being Jewish. To be sure, the diaspora over eras altered the ethnic and cultural DNA strands of being a Jew, but the contract, or more accurately "pact" between the state of Israel and a returning Jew was premised upon accepting and practicing those articulated pre-conditions, to culturally affirm and bolster Jewish identity.
Having just chanted (via the SEP and PBoPs) the All Souls' Mass at our public cemetery, I reflected on the positive affect of the chant among primarily an Anglo, Hispanic, Filipino congregation of about 200 souls. They seem not to have much problem, and in fact, did well enjoining the psalm, antiphons and ordinary (GreekEngLatin mix). But I also concluded that the disparity caused by a society that bends over backwards not to mandate the known lingua franca of the USA is a strong deterrent to even emboldened choir directors to force feed our beautiful mother tongue into the mouths, much less the minds, of a vastly divergent demography. You also have to account that even within ethnic groups, there are significant other sub groups based upon generations, class, assimilation, etc.
One might add that the American churches are not teaching that there is a duty for immigrants to learn English and assimilate the native culture.
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