Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat

I was impressed at how many people spoke English in Denmark and Holland - sometimes as well as, or better than, many Americans. If they can do it, in their own country, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask our own citizens to be able to speak the language of English in the United States.

Saying this only shows me how much we can learn from Europe. Most speak 2 or more languages. I feel like the statement you made up there proves that maybe WE are the ones that need to learn other languages, not exclude them, because as you just said, they do so in Holland and Denmark. We should be more like them, well educated and able to speak to foreigners in their native tongue.



I think we need to get our thumbs out of our butts and realize the world doesn't revolve around America anymore. The EU's Gross Domestic Product passed ours for the 1st time last week, and the euro is gonna hit 2 for $1 in the near future. We Americans are too fucking proud sometimes, and lazy it seems. I think the surge of bloated patriotism since 9/11 has done more worse than good. So many people could care fucking less about the rest of the world.

Sorry if that seemed rantish, I just hate the new form of naive nationalism in this country.