Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!grunwald From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: English-only Speakers as Uncultured - (nf) Message-ID: <5969@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 22:31:16 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5969 Posted: Thu Mar 1 22:31:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 09:28:31 EST Lines: 20 #R:masscomp:-20100:uiuccsb:7600091:000:973 uiuccsb!grunwald Mar 1 11:02:00 1984 Other than attempting to suck up to those VIAS-card tottin' cultured mammas, you might want to learn another language to gain an insight into someone elses culture (which is different than being cultured). Cultural hubris is one thing, but not wanting to seem like a Perrier-Hound does not obviate the need to realise that there is a world out there, and that they don't care about the L.A. Rams ->or<- Cabbage Patch dolls. Of course, we Amerikaners take our impressions of "true culture" from Europe (since we have no history to speak of), and one of the biggies there is being multi-lingual. But then, if you walk any direction in Europe for more than 200 miles, you move from one colored region of the map to another, and they all talk weird there, even weirder than where you just came from. That just doesn't grok in the U.S.A. unless you want to count dialects of english as a separate language (e.g. early american red-neck, Old Southern Drawl, etc).