The Blues

"Along with Jazz, white people have also taken quite a shine to The Blues, an art form that captured the pain of the black experience in America. Then, in the 1960s, a bunch of British bands started to play their own version of the music and white people have been loving it ever since. It makes sense considering that the British were the ones who created The Blues in the 17th Century." From here.

After considerable thought, I don't care if I can speak another language or not because everyone speaks English. What is interesting is how languages develop, especially the grammar. The reason to study other languages is so that you can learn how they are structured differently. For example, English is different that German and Spanish in that you don't have to conjugate verbs with respect to the pronouns. English speakers almost always must use pronouns like "I" or "you" or "it" while Spanish speakers can drop it completely - instead of "yo quiero" they can just say "quiero" and German speakers normally use pronouns. I always wonder if these differences affect how people view different issues. Especially about things such as collectivist thinking. If you drop the pronoun, does that give you the inclination to think you're more a part of a whole than an individual? I don't know, but it's fun to think about sometimes.