While there are solutions to solve lack of participation, the benefits of learning a foreign language are strictly confined to the brain and cognition and typically never help with jobs and careers. Second-generation Immigrants from China, Japan, and Taiwan usually have parents that are fluent in their native language. They have to learn English for many different reasons, and this makes a person who is fluent in their native language and English. “There are millions of such multi-lingual Americans entering the workforce each year, so why do they need you as an English-speaking American who learned a language on the side?” (Darwin’s Money) Also, business professionals overseas speak English because it is the global language of commerce. Sure, not everyone in that profession knows English, but whoever is in charge will. If they don’t, they will probably have a bilingual person to act as a translator. Essentially, most immigrants and business professionals speak English, so there is no reason that learning a foreign language will help you get a dream job. Also, if a company wants diversity in their workforce, they’ll hire that ethnicity, not you. You might speak part of the language, but you don’t have the cultural background that goes with it.