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Right, so that's 2 languages (English & Spanish). There are currently 23 offical working languages in the EU. And I'm sure if you live in Watsonville, Californ
by rmc 14y ago
Right, so that's 2 languages (English & Spanish). There are currently 23 offical working languages in the EU.
And I'm sure if you live in Watsonville, California, you can get your tax forms in English, right? This is definitly not the case within the whole of the EU and the EU offical languages. (e.g. someone in Ireland could not get their tax forms in Swedish).
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoLanguage isn't the only cultural barrier. Lets stop being obstructive - the argument is sound. There are many sub-cultures in North America. They have profoundly different outlooks. The bigger lesson is, political boundaries suck at defining people or culture.
- xradionut 14y agoThere's way more than two languages: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/ http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/ If you live in a larger urban area in the US, odds are that you can encounter several dozen languages in a day.
- rmc 14y agoYes, clearly there are many different languages spoken in a large, populous country like the USA. However that's not at all like the European Union which has to publish all EU Directives in 23 languages, and each country has 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 official languages for their region. In the USA, English is the lingua franca, and official stuff can be done in English. There is no language that you can use all over the EU that will work in all (or sometimes any) official capacity.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoSeveral dozen? Probably only in New York. Three to five separate languages per day, as you would encounter in any other moderately multicultural/multinational locale? Yeah, any large urban area will do that.