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(I'm not challenging you).
No I know. I think the hangover from the dominance was lazyness and arrogance. We don't learn languages because we don't have to... everybody speaks English. When I was a small boy in the 70's we used to go on package holidays to Majorca every year. The tourist trade had only recently arrived there from England, but it didn't arrive and respectfully speak the language of the island... we all just spoke VERY LOUDLYO, AND PUTTO LETTEROS, ON THE ENDS OF WORDSO" and we called everyone Pedro, because this was 'funny'.
That's how much respect there was for other languages and other nationalities by the first invasion of package holiday brits abroad.