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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (10922)6/4/2003 7:53:31 AM
From: ConanRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>>American's phobia about speaking other languages is very odd

C'mon Elroy. An economist like you should understand that people's propensity to marginally invest in something is related to the return. If you already speak English--the dominant world language--there is really little incentive to learn another unless you want a hobby. Globalization is happening. Whenever I've visited poor, backwards places and tried to speak the native language everyone I've met has insisted on trying out their English on me.

Conan
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