• Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    *white Americans maybe. There is a massive amount of the US that English is their second language… But not speaking a second language is really a problem many places.

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      3 years ago

      Also black Americans. All in all, only 20% of Americans in general, only about 4% of white Americans and 7% of black Americans are bilingual. Compare this to 84% of Germans for example, a far less diverse country, where 38% speak two languages, 29% three languages, 17% even more than three.

      Also, there probably are people earning a living wage doing freelancing in the US. It’s a joke, a two-liner at that. Of course it’s an oversimplification.