In short: By the time a person is 18, they must effectively be able to communicate and understand conversationally in 2 languages and casually use them in daily life…, if not become completely fluent…
Other than that, any language goes (whether it is a locally-known one, or a popular one worldwide),
The only thing I hope to gain from this, is to rid the world of /Monolingual Betas/
Seriously though, has this been a policy before? Because I haven’t heard of such one…
I think this can especially be used for citizenship…
Edit: I don’t necessarily have any other presupposed requirements besides bilingualism, though we may have certain notions of such in this main goal
Edit II: In furthering this venture, I have realized that my liberalism may slightly poisoned my lens…
And for clarification…
Minimum dual language system:
Main national language + other language (likely another related language, but foreign ones are fine)
Counterpoint: Like 80% of bilinguals in Latin America (myself included) have American culture brainrot as a result of being able to go on anglo internet.
Synthesis: Mandatory bilingual policy, the English language is officially forbidden.
Agreed.
Wait, nevermind I thought that said bisexual.
i think you should HAVE to learn sign language.
they should learn their respective countries. I assume dialects like Black American Sign Language would be preserved through social learning. although a universal sign language could be cool. i think we should learn sign language because deaf people cant learn how to hear.
And where does this slope end? We all have to learn how to speak to neurodivergent people in an inclusive way because neurotipical communication can lead to misunderstanding???
Why? I’m thinking in terms of what I would use as a language in my every day in the United States and there are so many languages I hear more often per day than see people signing
In the post-atomic horror of the near future you will need sign language to signal your comrades while you engage in urban stealth combat against the techno-barbarians of the rad wastes
To communicate with deaf or hard of hearing people, to communicate with someone when you both can’t hear eachother, to commicate with infants, to committed with non verbal people, etc but just communicating with disabled people should be a good enough reason
I feel like this would just end with kids in poor school districts not being able to become citizens
Actually you might be able to get white support for that lmfao
They don’t have to speak perfectly in a language, they just have to communicate well and use it in daily life…
Note: Besides, what are these white people going to speak as a second language? Scots?
Canada already has the results of your thought experiment though, outside of people who work in Quebec tourist towns the only ones who can communicate well in both languages either went to private school or an immersion program. The latter are very much similar to gifted programs in that they are very much designed as a way to get additional public funds to affluent people who can’t quite afford private school tuition.
I wish, I feel so inadequate being an American who only knows one language comparing myself to…Almost every other country in the world lol. If I ever have a kid I would insist that they start school taking language immersion classes if it were available
Something something, I remembered a Latino joke how if a “Multilingual” refers to someone who speaks 3 or more languages, then “American” refers to someone who can only speak one…
