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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2014/07/the_unfortunate_monolingual_american.html

The Unfortunate Monolingual American
By Kaitlin Thomas
July 3, 2014

While foreigners are hungry to learn English in order to succeed within American borders, statistics suggest that the same cannot be said for Americans attempting to keep up in a competitive global market that is more and more housed in nations where English is not the first, or even the preferred, language. … Simply put, American disinterest in acquiring language skills to adapt to linguistic and cultural situations in which they find themselves is hurting an entire nation's likelihood of maintaining a predominant role in 21st century world matters.

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