Periodically one reads complaints about flags being used to represent languages

How awful! for the Mexican/American/Brazilian flags to represent Spanish/English/Portuguese, those aren't the original homes of those languages!

Unspoken is the assumption that in Spanish or Mexico (and so on) all native-born residents speak and should speak Spanish (or whatever) as their first and/or primary language. Basque? Catalan? Mixtec? What's that? Everybody in Greece speaks Greek, duh!

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( Not all apocalyptic this time! Only mostly! )