Re: "Anglofixilization" (Chinese and other cultures)

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Sorry to contradict you but Swizerland has 3 official
lenguages and is a country that functions and
comunicates perhaps better than the U.S.
Luis



> > Don't get me wrong. I am in love with and cherish
> the precious  
> > global village that we are all apart. And I'm in
> your camp  
> > regarding their preservation. But it would be a
> disaster if we were  
> > to all split up into micro cultures unable to
> communicate with each  
> > other  in the US.
> >
> > Chuck Silva:-)
> >
> >
> > On  Sep 29, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Rev Fever wrote:
> >
> >> Possibly the next universal language is to be
> Chinese,
> >> since China is obviously rapidly rising to be one
> of the next  
> >> super powers,
> >> if not eventually *the* super power, and
> currently has over 20% of  
> >> the world's population.
> >>
> >> I seriously doubt that the Chinese gov't will
> make English  
> >> mandatory and it's national language,
> >> but probably will at least require some learning
> of it as part of  
> >> the basic educational curriculum (if not
> already?)
> >> and mainly for the purposes of business dealings
> in our ever- 
> >> globalizing world.  Seems likely.
> >>
> >> The Sleeping Dragon is fully awake now and ready
> to further  
> >> stretch it's muscles....
> >> (Thanx, Wal-Mart! :-) )
> >>
> >> Mandarin, or Hakka, or Cantonese, anyone?
> >>
> >> Here is a good place to start:
> >> http://www.chinalanguage.com/
> >>
> >> Just some thoughts that occurred to me while
> reading these posts  
> >> about English becoming the "universal language"
> the world,
> >> which personally to me, smacks a bit of the same
> Anglo / Euro- 
> >> ethnocentricity train of thought that has sadly
> been going on
> >> all over the world for several hundred years now,
> and often at the  
> >> peril of countless numbers of the inhabitants of
> other countries.
> >> (Sorry anyone, but that's the way it sounds to
> me. So, sue me. :-) )
> >>
> >> I would much rather be more influenced by
> cultures other than the  
> >> one I currently exist in.
> >>
> >> Over here in the USA, we have a bunch of
> delusional and psychotic  
> >> xenophobic Right (AKA: wrong) wing control freaks
> that are  
> >> DEMANDING that "their" America be an English ONLY
> country. They  
> >> hate even the very *idea* of ESL and loudly say
> so. What a bunch  
> >> of self-superior dominator culture morons.
> >> (and are mainly Rethuglicans and just love their
> guns!)
> >>
> >> As for Spanish previously mentioned by Luis, I am
> glad that I know  
> >> at least *some* of it (but still learning...) and
> enough to  
> >> roughly get by with in
> >> conversations with Spanish speaking people.
> "Pidjin Spanish"   
> >> really, but usually enough to make my point,etc.
> >> This originated with me as a kid growing up 150
> miles north of the  
> >> Mexican border, way out in West Texas. I am at
> least glad for that  
> >> happening.
> 
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