> , but that's often tied to educational systems, colonial legacies, and large populations of people living nearby who speak other languages. "but", what? Of c

> , but that's often tied to educational systems, colonial legacies, and large populations of people living nearby who speak other languages. "but", what? Of course there are reasons for them being multi-lingual; it's not simply that they are culturally or genetically predisposed to learning languages for the sake of it. That doesn't undermine the point that they are multi-lingual.