One thing that I have observed as I age is that our planet is definitely getting smaller and more multicultural and cross-cultural. I have studied the Spanish language and the Latino culture since eighth grade, and I have been a strong proponent of everyone learning a foreign language (especially we Americans who make it only an option and not a must). Well, now, I am really on my soap box, screaming from the mountaintops “Learn a foreign language, everyone_!”_  I’ll tell you why…