• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    USA you mean. (America covers Canada and Mexico and Brazil and… Well you get the picture).

    As with anything in the US it’s more complex than that. Most of my friends speak a second language to some degree. German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and I myself am working on Welsh.

    Sure you get plenty of ignorant folk who call it useless, like most of my relatives, but plenty want to learn. US is not really one homogenous culture despite how it might seem at times.

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      8 hours ago

      US is not really one homogenous culture despite how it might seem at times.

      You can thank first-past-the-post for the false majorities creating that perception.

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        That and Hollywood and pop culture (which would be what I expect other countries interact with the most) likes to homogenize and play to the most common elements.