[Lessismore]

Learning Japanese is probably still not a bad idea. However, the foreign language teachers of most American high schools, who are specialists in Western European languages, should be immediately dismissed and replaced by teachers of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, and other languages.

Most speakers of Western European languages also speak English better than most high school students could ever hope to speak their languages. Therefore, having our student (yes, my children too) learn Spanish or French is a useless distraction.

[Cronos]

Learning Japanese is probably still not a bad idea. However, the foreign language teachers of most American high schools, who are specialists in Western European languages, should be immediately dismissed and replaced by teachers of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, and other languages.

Well, considering that European domination is only about 400 years old while the Asian domination before that was millenia old, focusing Westwards (for us), seems a good idea. That's what Bush is doing, but most folks can't see the big picture and are mired in the petty complaints of petty men. These petty men are called democrats.