• DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        According to the US census, there are 76 million multilingual people, 23% of the population. In March 2025 the White House released an executive order declaring, “…it is in America’s best interest for the Federal Government to designate one — and only one — official language” (The White House). In 2021 there were 5.3 million students receiving English Language Learner services.[104] Additionally, Net immigration rates have drastically increased since 2021 from 247,000 to 2.8 million in 2024 (US census).

        Trump wants to keep Americans unilingual.

    • Spezi@feddit.org
      3·
      6 days ago

      I would say that the vast majority of people speaks at least one language. Even americans usually speak a language. Now if you are talking about a secondary language, numbers are definitely lower.

    • g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      So if you have 10 people and just 1 of them speaks two languages and everyone else only speaks one lets do some math.

      11 tongues/10 persons = 1.1 average languages per person

      1.1 > 1

      “The average person on earth speaks more than one language” is absolutely true purely mathematically