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Wake the fuck up the Americans.
I'm here to talk some sense into you.

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Well,
hold on a second.

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I'm Canadian and when I say Americans,
I'm including Canadians in that because 

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Canadians admitted we're really just the
51st state.

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We're like California with Igloos.
So Canadians,

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Americans,
same thing anywhere.

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What was I saying?
We've got the Americans.

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I'm here to talk some sense into you as 
a nation.

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We suck with languages.
43% of all people around the world are 

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bilingual.
That includes over 50% of the people in 

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Europe and in some countries like 
Indonesia and Philippines,

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virtually everybody is bilingual and 
it's very common in a lot of countries 

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for people to speak three,
four,

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or even five languages on a regular 
basis.

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But in America,
only 20% of the people are bilingual.

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And guess what?
Almost all of those people are 

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immigrants or the children of immigrants
amongst homegrown Americans,

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very few are bilingual.
And in the northern province of Canada 

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at the situation is not much different.
Most of the people who are bilingual are

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immigrants or Francophone Canadians,
French speaking,

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Canadians,
anglophone.

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Canadians are generally modeling.
You will,

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very few of them are bilingual.
In Australia,

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the numbers are even worse.
And in Europe,

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guests which countries have the lowest 
levels of bilingualism?

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So at the point I'm making is that 
angler phones basically do not become 

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bilingual.
I don't want to say that anglophones are

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lazy,
but why the hell are we so damn lazy?

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Well,
obviously it's because of a lack of 

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incentive.
English is the international language.

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So why should I put in all this time and
effort to speak another language when 

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other people will just speak English 
with me?

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Isn't it Kinda sorta arrogant to expect 
all the other people to put in all the 

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effort to accommodate us?
Anybody who has traveled has probably 

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seen Americans or other anglophones 
getting frustrated with the locals when 

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they couldn't speak English.
But if those anglophones had ever 

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learned a second language for 
themselves,

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maybe they would be able to understand 
and empathize with that other person and

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find a way to communicate with them.
The truth is English is not spoken by 

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most people in the world despite the 
fact that it's the de facto 

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international language.

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Most people simply don't speak English 
unless you stick to the men tourist 

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traps and who likes cheesy tourist 
traps.

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Knowing another major language can 
greatly help you communicate around the 

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world.
If there's also no guarantee that 

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English will be the international 
language for much longer.

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Not too long ago,
the international language was French,

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and in the future,
maybe it will be Chinese or Spanish.

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Who knows?
Well,

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it probably won't be Chinese,
but you never know.

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The number of Spanish speakers is 
growing rapidly,

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and a lot of Spanish speaking countries 
are in the process of developing 

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rapidly.
So Spanish could become much more 

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important than the near future.
But even if.