American here with a PhD in German, and fluent in two more languages. Amazing I was able to do that despite being unwilling. Do you mean white, poor, conservative Americans are unwilling to learn languages?

This country is full of immigrants who are American citizens in volumes that eclipse the populations of most countries in the EU. You might be adding Russian to your list of languages when Trump has his way and pulls out of NATO -- willingly? Btw, "most" people in the EU do not "speak" at least two languages. Basic conversational ability is very different from fluency or even multilingualism.