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Opinion - Cynthia Tucker

AMERICANS WOULD BE WISE TO PARLEZ-VOUS ANOTHER LANGUAGE

Sat Aug 9, 7:58 PM ET

Perhaps you remember the dust-up several weeks ago when Barack Obama, speaking at a town hall meeting in suburban Atlanta, suggested that parents should urge their children to learn foreign languages. Xenophobic commentators and GOP activists immediately took to the stump to denounce Obama for elitism, insufficient nationalism and a tendency to coddle foreigners.

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