I think every country needs to have a mandatory bilingual policy (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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)

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[-] Blep@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

kkkanada has this but the two languages are extremely cursed. In practice most areas treat the French language requirements as a joke.

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

All of Canada treats the French requirements as a joke, Quebec treats speaking English as equivalent to genocide yea

[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Quebec genuinely cares more about the language than the french - by a lot

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Crackers are so desperate to be oppressed that this is the closest thing they have

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A Quebecois socialist (or at least someone belonging to a nominally socialist party) once wrote a book called, translated to English: White [N-words] Of America, trying to paint Quebec's "struggle" for independence and acceptance as being the same as the black civil rights movement in the US yea