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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. > === message truncated === www.myspace.com/luisangulocom ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7