Interesting perspective; still surprising: I am trilingual in two languages that you have listed, and somehow I feel that there are plenty of people like me, su

Interesting perspective; still surprising: I am trilingual in two languages that you have listed, and somehow I feel that there are plenty of people like me, such that if there was any demand at all it would have been easily and quickly filled. The programmers who are functionally bilingual in your kitchen, were they all white? Frankly my feeling is that a Japanese, fully bilingual with English, would still be at a disadvantage to a Caucasian who speaks English and passable Japanese. That is to say, P(speaks English + Japanese | Japanese) > P(speaks English + Japanese | Caucasian American), which makes the latter more expensive, or am I mistaken? I was once advised that to make myself competitive with multilingualism I should study law, and I thought, if that's really what it takes, then, whatever.