It's same everywhere, many people here fail at Slovak language...I bet Japenese also fail at their language since they've got to learn 3 different writing scripts (4 including ours).
But I believe knowledge of your own language should be something you just have to know like walking and breathing...and be born in English-speaking country is extreme advantage since you practically don't have to learn any other language...what makes it shitty is the Internet where people give a shit how to write properly and spend in there 1000x more time than in school.
yes, it is, many of those are serious problems, but people just dont pay attention because they are not directly affected...its like cancer or AIDS, you just don't care until one of your relatives or YOU are not the one who has it
I'm personally doing the best I can to NOT support global warming, save energy, avoid debt economy etc...its not that hard, but some people just won't give up some things and most stupid childish argument is "one person won't change anything"...
Typical example is a car. Parents buy a car. Boy turns 18 and wants his own car because whatever...so a single family now has 2 cars. Because boy is not "rich" enough to buy a proper new ecological car, he buys an old one, which has enormous fuel consumption (especially in USA) and produces lots of CO2. Now...who cares? The boy? nah...parents? double nah...His friends/relatives/neighbours...anyone? no...why? because lots of people have cars, so why can't he?
But the result of these actions are now affecting everyone everywhere on the planet. Even a single person can change it.
If you sit 8 hours at a computer a day nothing bad happens, but if you set there for an year, every day, suddenly you notice there's something wrong with your spine (maybe you feel pain in your arms when you sneeze) - same thing with global warming, by very small pieces for a very long time it gets worse...
Maybe some people who turned 18 and buyed their own cars will think something bad about me, but I don't care.
Today world allows you to live your life without thinking of others, but it is not possible to live like that anymore...
And the music thing...sapere aude
So, the easiest thing one can do is wait for spring/summer and plant at least 2 trees