Travel is it all about language or all about Americans?

Is it all in the language or is it all in the Americans? I have seen in just about every season of the Amazing Race as well as local people those who complain because they traveled to a foreign land and could not find anyone who spoke English. Why would or should anyone get annoyed if they go to France, Brazil, Tibet, Vietnam etc and no one speaks English. Hello, it is not their 1st language. Do that mean that EVERY American should know at least Spanish (seeing we have so many Hispanics here), Chinese (a major world language), German, Italian or some other language often spoken around the world other than English so when any come here as tourist we can tell them in THEIR native tongue “The hotels are on Market street and the cabs stands are over there. Have cash because they don’t take traveler’s checks”? If most of us (me included) are too lazy to learn another nations language why would we EXPECT them to know ours to make our travel through THEIR country more pleasant and easier? It is almost like people think the world should cater to American, which is ridiculous isn’t it?