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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] Cascadia_@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I could get behind mandatory instruction in a second language in schools but any sort of knowledge requirements for citizenship really rub me the wrong way

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ... ogey ... just to clarify, I didn't mean for mandatory bilingualism to be necessarily related to education, but more or less natural exposure, if not language tutoring by its native speakers...

As for citizenship, I should've retracted it, but I was supposing that this requirement only applies if you reach the age of 18 in the post...

[-] Cascadia_@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So if someone doesn't know two languages by the time they turn 18 they would get their citizenship taken away? Anyway what I was getting at is that citizenship is basically a person's personhood under the current state system, so there should really be as few things tied to that as possible (birthright and/or residency only imo)