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Because in monolingual countries with a large population, neither the student not the teacher cares enough to have the student come out with a strong grasp of the foreign language on the other end. In countries where getting good at English or another lingua franca is a practical necessity, you better believe a lot of students are coming out with functional language skills despite many of these students having a fraction of the investment rich Anglo countries do.
This doesn't make any sense. While obviously there are physical limits in the extreme, there is no evidence that language acquisition is bottlenecked by storage space of all things - if you have a GeForce 256 and a 100TB SSD obviously storage is not going to be the bottleneck in your system.
As Pigeon says bilingualism is very common globally - the fact that many children don't learn multiple languages comes from a lack of incentives rather than a lack of ability. Many people across South America, continental Europe, Africa, and ex-CJK Asia will at least be conversant in a global lingua franca and a native language out of necessity: e.g the Nordic countries and the Dutch are almost all perfectly bilingual English speakers.
These are indictments against the requirement to learn languages in school, which I agree is useless for unmotivated students, but really this is a general argument against teaching anything in school above basic numeracy and literacy. I broadly agree with Caplan's Case Against Education thesis, but these posts do not support your bailey that secondary language acquisition is not possible or detrimental.
The motte here is that the opportunity costs of language learning are high, which I think is probably correct for English speakers even as a hobbyist polyglot myself, but in the long run everyone is dead anyways. There are much worse and unproductive things that most people do with their lives.
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