Thank you so much David. I think you are right, so many try spin definitions or details for their agendas.

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Patti, I think that seemed like a good idea. It was strange that parents thought their kids would lose their citizenship if they failed the test. That does not even make sense. I wonder if someone spread rumors.

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They wanted to do that in New Hampshire. High school students would have had to take the citizenship test to graduate. Parents protested because they thought that would mean their kids would lose their citizenship so it was tabled.

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I learned German back in school, for five years, but I’ve forgotten most of it by now. But I am learning French and I am more serious with that.

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Yes the US and other democracies are not direct democracies (like ancient Greece), but they have elements of direct democracy in referendums. You might be right that “direct democracy” is what many who say “not democracy” have in mind, but it does not seem to the case in many other cases.

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I think you’re right about that.

I’ve forgotten almost all what little German I knew. I didn’t realize until I got to college and tried to speak to other people that what I’d learned at home was almost entirely dialect. That was embarrassing. I stopped trying to speak it.

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I think there are other benefits to learning a second language as well. Apparently it improves memory, enhances cognitive development, and delays dementia. Even though those things can be achieved through other means, such as solving puzzles, it also helps you think in different ways, and help you understand other cultures more easily. In Europe learning languages is viewed as something healthy and you can impress someone by speaking multiple languages.

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