There used to be a requirement that anyone receiving an academic degree has to demonstrate proficiency in a second language. The purpose is not so you could use

There used to be a requirement that anyone receiving an academic degree has to demonstrate proficiency in a second language. The purpose is not so you could use the second language, instead the purpose is that learning a second language forces you to understand that all the details of your own native language are arbitrary, understand the abstract notion of "language" separately from your native one, and as part of that understand that many parts of your native language encode pieces of your native culture and are not universal, and thus cannot be translated directly. This understanding of how language works was part of what made you a "college educated" person, who has a better understanding of the world. Has this requirement been dropped, or are diploma mills able to graduate students who can speak a little Spanish but do not understand the important bits about how human languages work?