What knowledge must the ones who represent us have?

Nowadays, society is required to learn languages, and mostly English, which has begun the most important language all around the world and everybody is learning it. Students must get a certificate in a determinated level of English to get their university degrees and you are asked for it when you apply for a job even if you want to work as a cleaner or as a dustman, although probably they are never going to use other language different to their mother tongue. Despite the importance languages have, many people who are supposed to represent our country don’t even know how to keep a conversation going fluently, so how can we stand being asked for aspects that the ones who ask us for them don’t have?

Lately, there has been a huge controversy with Ana Botella’s occurrence in TV when she had to represent Madrid in the Olympic Game’s call because of her bad English.

On the one hand, it is true that the way she expressed herself was ridiculously bad. It seemed like if she had prepared it before and she had studied it to talk quickly like if she was doing a test. Besides, her pronunciation was awful and everybody talked about her the day after in every single social web, mostly students, who are asked for high marks just to get a grant or who can’t allow spending such a high amount of money to enroll university and who see that after all, important people like they are supposed to be, know the half they know and have the triple they have.

On the other hand, it is only one case between thousands. People saw Ana Botella and she obviously called the attention but we should not forget that there are many people who are as important as she is and inasmuch as we do not see them very often on TV we do not realize the knowledge they have, but it could be even worse than hers.

People’s impotence is completely understandable because Spain is getting worse and worse and not only people are asked for more things day by day, which can make their life more difficult, but also they see how other countries think our country is ridiculous. People who represent a country must have some special knowledge and if they do not have it, it may mean that they should not occupy that place. The worst thing could be the fact that we are who have chosen all of them, but do we really know who are we choosing and if they will be able to represent us correctly? The question is an outright no.