[ggrrhh_ta]

Also of note, bilingualism/multilingualism is practically the norm across the world; monolingualism is almost an exception.

[iratewizard]

Bilingualism in countries that don't natively speak the international language of English.

[vanderZwan]

Also in plenty of countries that do. Ask anyone from any African nation with English as one of its official languages.

[thaumasiotes]

The norm is multilingualism across different languages that are all local to the area. French people studying English in school are not "bilingual" at all, in this sense.

[ggrrhh_ta]

I was not counting that as bilingualism.