Originally Posted by
TRVLUPGD
+1
Almost everywhere else people speak more than one language. Only in US do we not encourage multilingual education. Often not even English.
The world is changing, we need more interactions with other countries and cultures.
True, but there aren't many other places in the world where you could drive 1,000 miles in almost any direction and when you got there everyone spoke the same language as where you started. Until recently there was no need to be bilingual in the US like there was elsewhere. Learning a second language in the US was purely a leisure or business pursuit.