I speak English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Italian so I have a lot of friends from very different backgrounds, at least that's why I'd like to think.
Here's how I categorize my friends:
*Cool, funny, creative, and usually atheist friends with whom I just happen to click, the type of friends that gets the slightest of references from a movie, a TV show, pop-culture or even a sitcom: Most speak 2-3 languages.
* Other friends, they are spectacularly average at everything most of the time and I feel like I have superpowers when I'm around them: they all speak one language, Hebrew, and most were terrible English speakers.
If I am to come up with a more specific claim I'd say people I know who don't know English well are less intelligent that those who do.
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I speak English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Italian so I have a lot of friends from very different backgrounds, at least that's why I'd like to think. Here's how I categorize my friends: *Cool, funny, creative, and usually atheist friends with whom I just happen to click, the type of friends that gets the slightest of references from a movie, a TV show, pop-culture or even a sitcom: Most speak 2-3 languages. * Other friends, they are spectacularly average at everything most of the time and I feel like I have superpowers when I'm around them: they all speak one language, Hebrew, and most were terrible English speakers. If I am to come up with a more specific claim I'd say people I know who don't know English well are less intelligent that those who do.