07-10-2008
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#15157 (permalink)
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playa maya guy
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: real America
Posts: 11,985
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Quote:
Originally Posted by diogeron
Having read Obama's first book, "Dreams from my Father", written in 1995, after he had been elected to head the Harvard Law Review, but before he entered politics, it's clear that he was thinking even then of the advantages of Americans learning other languages and cultures. This is hardly revelatory or anything that people since the Founding Fathers hadn't recognized.
I have no idea whether or not Obama's kids are studying another language, (my guess is, yes, knowing their socio-economic class) but if they are like my now adult kids, both are or will do so because that's something that helps our kids compete in the 21st century and that young adults and parents increasingly understand. If that is controversial to anyone, I have to admit I just don't get it, any more than saying we need more engineers and math teachers is controversial.
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Yeah, that's all great and all that... but we're talking foreign languages, here!!! Don't you get it?!? 
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Are you really American?
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Steve
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