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Oh yes haha sorry, look here in the weak inflection section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declension
It states how plural nouns in the dative add -en in the chart. I hope this helps! (unless you figured it out three months ago haha)
It's not plural, "Menschen" is a singular noun with N-declension. See here for more info: http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/wp/nouns-articles/ii-5-weak-nouns-the-n-declension/
But it is confusing, because in other sentences "Menschen" might be plural...
Yeah, that's the part that sucks about this sentence: "People" is uncountable and therefore in English a plural. "Menschen" is countable and can be either. I'm not sure why using it as a plural is regarded as wrong in this case, maybe it is a standard German expression?? I don't know. Maybe the native speakers can help us out with that.