There's also the fact that, at least in america, multi-lingualism is such a low percentage of the population. With the current unfortunate trend of nationalism, and the whole "in america we speak English" and all that malarkey, people who actually can speak other langauges well are more and more in the minority. contrast that with, basically every other country in which more and more people are learning multiple languages, and it really makes one sad about the state of the USA.
Not to mention the tragic disuse of sign languages as a form of communication that exclude deaf and mute people from general conversations, which just makes it even worse. (i'm mute myself, so I feel this a lot.)
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