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whomod said:
Where may I ask are you living at? I find that kind of behavior baffling seeing as how if anybody was so overtly racist like that in L.A. (or any other large Metropolis) you'd be pretty unpopular and probably would rightly get your ass handed to you by someone in less than a day.



Or you'd find a lot of jackasses who think the same as you. I've met people from New York, LA, and other large Metropolises; and many of them are as racist if not more racist than the bigots from a rural or smaller city area.

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whomod said:
Still, I also think that Americans tend to frown upon rather than encourage bilingualism where many people in other countries know 2 or more languages just as a matter of basic education.



I can't speak for the rest of the country, but I know why foreign languages don't thrive so much where I live. I took three years of Spanish in high school and another two in college. To this day, I can't remember a damned bit of it. I don't use Spanish in my day to day life, so that knowledge has been replaced by the more important facts of the hotness of the female bartender at my favorite watering hole. It also didn't help that we were being taugh Castillian Spanish when I have more of a chance of running into the Mexican dialect. The US is pretty spread out and isolated in many parts, making the need for a second language useless to many.

Also, a lot of these European countries are learning the languages of their immediate neighbors with whom they do a lot of interaction or even visit the country very often. So there is more of a need in Europe for multilingual capabilities than there is her in the State.

whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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