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To the editor,

I enjoyed your editorial in the October issue of GDA, but was surprised at the upshot of your survey. The very complimentary comments by the European colleagues were not what I expected to identify Americans as Americans. On occasion I have customers from foreign countries speaking in their native languages to each other, but almost exclusively they are able to talk to me in English. I have often thought that most Americans could not return that courtesy! Due to tourism from America to foreign countries, I'm sure it is beneficial to be bi-lingual, but I am constantly amazed that Americans (myself included) would be hard-pressed to speak another language fluently enough to get by. That is where I expected us to be readily “revealed” as Americans!

—Linda Foster, Owner, Christmas in Kentucky