Chinese is the most common first language. Those statistics of a billion people versus half a billion show that. However, English is more widely used. It is the language of flight. It is the language of trade. Nearly every country of the world has people learn the language.

In addition, I ask you, people of Europe, if you picked a random direction, and drove that way for seven hours, would you still be in a place where they speak your language? (Apart from the UK, obviously, since you can't do that, except taking a train to Paris.) Probably not. Here, that is nearly always true, except for the Mexican border. If I drove for 24 hours from my home, I would still be in a place where they speak English as their first language. That is why America doesn't emphesize other languages.

New Orleans was mentioned. Blaming it on the French is stupid, but suggesting that something like that could only occur in America is also stupid. I would say that if any major city were to suddenly be without any services, and most of it destroyed, 'mob rule' would take over no matter where the city is.

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