General Discussion

That attitude is really, really common among Republicans. They don't have to learn any other languages. Everyone who has anything worthwhile to say will say it in English.

Now that he's Secretary of Defense, I wonder what he would think of the total immersion Russian language school I attended while serving in the USAF in the mid 1960s.. Apparently, the military had some need for people who understood Russian. What surprise, eh?

Many Americans take great pride in their ignorance of any language other then English. When they travel, they expect everyone they encounter to understand what they say. Thank goodness people in other countries learn English, or American would starve to death when they traveled.

When many Americans hear people conversing in a non-English language, they take it as an insult or assume they're talking about them in negative terms.

THIS IS AMERICA! SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT!