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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nelson Atwell" data-source="post: 531520" data-attributes="member: 59102">So as a person in the military, I should be required to be fluent in the language of any country I am serving in?  If they don't know the language, then the police have a right to kill them?  Get real!  Tourists and other people only spending a short time in a country shouldn't be expected to know the local language.  I learned some basic Portuguese and Turkish when I was in those countries, but I couldn't even figure out the alphabet in Korea.Like I said, Americans are very ego-centric and myopic when it comes to other countries and cultures.  Protecting our country does not mean we have to give up our civil rights, least of which the right to live.</blockquote>