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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have never been in an English speaking country. We learn it because of cultural hegemony

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's what I'm saying, that is pretty common over there whereas here the only other useful language is spanish (or maybe mandarin depending on location), and that is only to help people who come over and only speak spanish, it isn't like english which can be necessary for business or culturally just normal due to british occupation. I do think spanish should be a bit bigger of a focus in school but also you'd be 100% fine not knowing it.