Do you know how many languages are spoken in Paris? London? Berlin? Any large city in the world?
A neighborhood or immigrant community is not the dominant population. The dominant population in New York speaks English. Whereas, the dominant population in different regions of India or China do not speak the same language. In India, THEY HAVE NO COMMON LANGUAGE. The dominant populations in different valleys of many places in Europe speak different languages. Why is this so hard to understand?
A linguistic map of the US will show English, English, English, with Spanish as well in the areas around Mexico and a little peppering of French in Louisiana. If you get the resolution down far enough to include Indian reservations, you will start getting those languages. Whereas a linguistic map of India looks like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u7MaPZVBoag/R-Gwt0EYjyI/AAAAAAAACDc/SAQsr9KjN44/s1600-h/himal1992max.jpg
--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 2:03 PM
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > When you go from LA to New York, are they going to be
> speaking a different language?
>
> Do you have any idea how many languages are spoken in
> Queens? Seriously. Brooklyn to a lesser extent, too. Compare
> that even to otherwise cosmopolitan places like Seattle and
> Portland.
>
> Doug
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