"Say It in English, Please!": World Language and Culture Paranoia

"It is much easier to kill them if we can't understand them. We might begin to like and empathize with them if we do." That was the opinion of three quarters of an adult college class when faced with the awareness of their deficient linguistic survival skills. They are willing to forego self-preservation for the sake of warfare and annihilation of people that are "different." Pressing reasons for looking into our world language needs and competencies have risen, but we prefer to bury our he...