monolingualism

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But the idea of linguistic commonality among members of a nation-state was not ever a demand for monolingualism.

From Salon

Even in pre-Civil War America, monolingualism was rare.

From Salon

The American turn to monolingualism did not occur until after the Civil War, when new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe began to arrive in large numbers: Italians, Poles, Greeks and Ashkenazi Jews.

From Salon

Dear Miss Manners: I live in a city in which a wide variety of languages are spoken, though I, to my shame and regret, seem genetically predisposed to monolingualism.

From Washington Post

“Americans, with what Salomone calls their ‘smug monolingualism,’ are often blissfully unaware of the advantage they have because of the worldwide dominance of their native tongue,” Amy Chua writes in her review.

From New York Times