[Tainnor]

> since that shows ignorance to learn basic necessity to exist in present world and lack of education and world views (I mean how the heck can you learn anything about the world not speaking English just from limited local sources).

My parents' generation learned Latin and French instead of English, and there's an argument to be made that you also can't really understand a lot of the world without at least some passing familiarity with both of these languages. In the GDR, people used to learn Russian, for obvious reasons, and that's not so long ago - many of these people are still in the workforce.

[petodo]

That's not really an excuse, my retired father learned Latin, German (to the level he was translator) and Russian and he still late in his age learned also at least basic English.

Meanwhile my ignorant low educated mother learned just very basic German needed in shop to be able to communicate with German speaking customers.

I can cut you some slack if you are above 50 and know at least some other languages, but honestly you should still know at least very basic English even without formal education. I also learned at least very basic Spanish without any formal education. There is no excuse for anyone below 50 to not speak English even if they speak Latin or German.

[Tainnor]

I bet I could find 10 things that "a reasonable person" should know / be able to do, which you would utterly fail at.

The scope of human knowledge and abilities is so vast, it's really strange that you'd fault anybody for not having the exact same interests as you.

Also, knowing "some basic English" is not nearly enough to enjoy series, movies etc. or to read news in English.

Also, the way you speak about your own mother... man, you seem to have some anger issues.