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HOW ENGLISH COULD PROMOTE DEMOCRACY, PEACE & PROSPERITY AROUND THE WORLD!

by Boye De Mente on Sep 15, 2009

Mainstream Americans often appear to be the least informed about and the least sensitive to cultural differences that distinguish and separate people—a failing that has a negative impact on our business, diplomatic and personal interactions with other countries.      This is a problem that will not be resolved until the study of other cultures becomes a fundamental part of the education we receive in our youth. But there is a built-in barrier that must be overcome before this education would become meaningful.      This barrier is the failure of people in general to understand that key words in languages—not things—are the primary repository and transmitter of cultures, resulting in them downplaying or ignoring altogether the role of languages in the values and behavior of people.        In all languages there are dozens to hundreds of examples of culturally pregnant “code words”...Read More >>



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