Why take a foreign language or visit a foreign country?

A new country is a new perspective; a new culture to soak in with new issues and new pages full of new words in a new day's life. All things to discover and ponder to reflect ones own country. To take a foreign language is to breech from, in this case, the American mold and inplant yourself into the world's. You then become not just a person of you're country, but a person of the world. Like a pomegranite.