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[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 121 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When you can drive for more than a week straight and still be in the same country, needing to know other languages is a lower priority.

I think it's more related to the language importance than it's size. We have continental countries (Russia, Brazil, etc) that you can also drive for a week without leaving and learning English is important there.

If the world had chosen another language for communication probably US citizens would need to learn another language still.

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