Look at this map of the world. And start to understand how the USA is getting more and more disconnected from the world. This map shows the spread of the metric units of measure system in the world in blue. The orange part is where they have their own units of measure. The influence of American English in the world has been big because it in a way continued the British empire. But they (Americans) forget that after Chinese, actual Spanish is the most spoken native language in the world. Language Native speakers (in millions) Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese 990 Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Spanish 484 Indo-European Romance English 390 Indo-European Germanic Hindi 345 Indo-European Indo-Aryan Portuguese 250 Indo-European Romance The USA integrated into the world as a big brother guarding for pease and freedom. But its elites (university graduates) lost the connection with the population and the primary task on an elite, taking care of good public services. As everywhere and always a...