[lbo-talk] The Dollar and the American Language

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 7 02:46:44 PST 2005


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: In my view, the US power elite have benefited from comparative linguistic advantage in international politics and the culture industry -- producing anything from college education, Hollywood movies, computer software, and scientific discoveries -- due to path dependency, a legacy of the British Empire that the US Empire replaced, and recent victories over the Soviet Union.

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The US was _against_ the breakup of the Soviet Union. Lots of the US policy establishment was against the USSR moving its troops out of Eastern Europe, in fact.

On a related note, according to the last census, 4.8% of the Russian population speaks English, and believe me that 4.8% is far from fluent.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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