Isnt it conceited for English speaking people in the US to not learn other languages?

Seems like many people in the US get mad if someone doesn't speak English. They be thinking if someone comes to the US they better know English or they don't deserve to be here. So how come when they go to some other country for like vacation they still expect everyone to know English.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Conceited in any country - including my own England - not to make allowance for the visitor's limited knowledge of one's own language.

Equally conceited to visit anywhere abroad and not make at least some effort at the host's language, if only little more than the etiquette words on Page One of the phrase-book.

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By the end of a fortnight's holiday on Crete I'd scraped up enough to try pronouncing the word on a large building near our holiday-flats.

Phy...? Phyta..? Phyto...? Phylla...?

Then I twigged (oh dear). Of course - phyto and phylla are the Greek roots(!) of many botanical terms.

The place was a garden-centre.