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[–] -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

omg I'm in a shitpost lemmy...

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    According to the US census, there are 76 million multilingual people, 23% of the population. In March 2025 the White House released an executive order declaring, "...it is in America's best interest for the Federal Government to designate one — and only one — official language" (The White House). In 2021 there were 5.3 million students receiving English Language Learner services.[104] Additionally, Net immigration rates have drastically increased since 2021 from 247,000 to 2.8 million in 2024 (US census).

    Trump wants to keep Americans unilingual.

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    So if you have 10 people and just 1 of them speaks two languages and everyone else only speaks one lets do some math.

    11 tongues/10 persons = 1.1 average languages per person

    1.1 > 1

    "The average person on earth speaks more than one language" is absolutely true purely mathematically

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