I completely agree with you! It's something that's fascinated me for years, and what I wanted to major in in college, until I determined that there was no way I was going to get that emphasis from my university. Of course I couldn't take every language on offer from every possible teacher, so it's possible that I surrendered too early, but after multiple languages and a linguistics class I figured that the language-culture intersection was not my school's strong point, if it was ever mentioned at all. In fact the professor of my linguistics class seemed to deny that it even existed except anecdotally, which having grown up bilingual and as a Third Culture Kid made me really mad.

(Speaking of which, all of a sudden I've had an associative window into the feelings of people of alternate sexualities and various hidden minorities whose existence gets ignored or denied. Valuable insight.)

Now that I have a bachelor's degree in Biology I'm trying to figure out if I should backtrack and get back in line with what I actually wanted to do with my life.