View original postBecause you mentioned some schools, representative of America on the whole or not, which seemed to jibe more with my experience than with what the others have said. RT is older than I am, but I think Tom and Cannoli are a few years younger. And so I'm curious about what you've seen. What are the influencing factors when it comes to national region, urban-suburban-rural divide, local ethnic demographics, decade, and local employers. As to the last there, I have no doubt the business done with Japan ( via the port of Seattle but mostly Boeing) led to the introduction of Japanese classes at my school. My teacher said something like a dozen schools in the whole of America offered it at that time.