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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Learn Spanish to work in customer service with low income people. There are a lot of them, so this is very "practical".

Learn Mandarin or Russian to work at a 3 letter agency.

Honestly not everyone wants to work with the poor and not everyone wants to work at a 3 letter agency, so this debate can go on forever depending on your priors.[/quote]

Your racism and prejudices are showing.  Not all native Spanish speakers are either (1) poor or (2) living in the USA.  There are tremendous opportunities for Spanish speakers in dozens of countries in law, business, etc.  That you can actually communicate with Spanish speakers in the USA is a nice plus too.  [/quote]

Median Hispanic household wealth is like 63k compared to over 200k for non Hispanic whites; maybe lower middle class is more accurate than poor but the point stands. Not everyone wants to work retail with the general public.

As for opportunities abroad, you have to weigh those afforded by Spanish against those afforded by German, French, Mandarin, Arabic, etc. Those also have great business opportunities, so I don't see an obvious win for Spanish here either.[/quote]

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