Basically yea. I’m not familiar w/ lower class foreign language study throughout US history. I know the rich did French & German (typically) to signal their pedigree. I believe the founders frequently knew one or both. FDR had a separate governess to teach him each.
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I'd do research, but am only on a phone for a few more weeks, and data is running out, ha
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HS & college enrollment. Data only goes back to 1948 & 1960 respectively. Would love to know what it looked like previously.pic.twitter.com/5HjFx94eA9
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French was higher in 1960, and German was a close third!
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Fun tidbit: Spanish only became top language after 1948. Imagine my shock! Right after the war, we’re speaking the language of our soon to be invaders.pic.twitter.com/Pe6ivIazIr
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You need to redo all of this as a thread! Put it all together into one thing
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I might have to do that one day. Another fun language fact, just as an aside: people who study Latin especially, but also French or German, do better on the SATa than ppl who study Spanish (or worse no second language at all). I unironically wonder why Spanish isn’t as helpful.pic.twitter.com/XkFOVeOnwH
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I thought the same thing. High verbal IQ & all that. I’m assuming mostly juice enroll in Hebrew classes. I suppose the goyim could but don’t imagine that many actually would.
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