re: #268 mmmirele

I don’t know that the people making policy in West Virginia have ever had the experience of having a whole new world of insight open up when you learn a second language. I doubt it.

Indeed. In many ways, Brazil is a world unto itself, vast and complex, primitive and rough in places, dizzyingly sophisticated and nuanced in others. That world was open to me because I speak Portuguese. It is much easier to learn than Japanese but few Americans bother to do so.