Max Markham, Policymic.com, "Next generation news and politics"
“My name is Jon Huntsman, and I’m going to become the next President of the United States.”
That is not a very peculiar thing to hear when tuning in to CNN and seeing a Piers Morgan interview with one of the GOP presidential candidates. What is peculiar is hearing a politician, namely a Republican politician, repeating the statement in Chinese. As Morgan noted soon after Huntsman’s linguistic display, he is the only candidate in the GOP presidential field with a fluency in a foreign language, and, if elected, only the second president to be fluent in the world’s most widely spoken language (after Herbert Hoover). With America constantly striving to stay at the apex of the world's globalization trend, it cannot afford to continue shooting itself in the foot by shutting its doors to outside cultures and proper foreign language education for youth. Read more...