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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: English-only Speakers as Uncultured - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 22:31:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 22:31:16 1984
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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).