[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

[ravi]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> Five hundred languages, each spoken only by one
>> sub-section of the ppulation, simply gives you the equivalent of 500
>> midwestern villages all gathered on the same ground.
>
> No it doesn't. People living next to each other have to interact and  
> create fresh cultures.

Sometimes yes, sometimes not, no? Let's go with Chris's example of  
India: sure some in northern India now eat "dosas" and some Hindi  
movies too run for 400+ days in Madras, but as Carrol describes it,  
they are quite a bit insulated from each other as well. And the same  
seems to hold for the communities in the Queens or here in New Jersey.  
A good contrast would be the assimilation of Indian culture and  
language into England (for understandable reasons). Most USers idea of  
an Indian is the racist depiction in The Simpsons. Anyway, feel free  
to ignore me... I didn't even quite get the original point, which now  
is probably far from whatever it is that DDR wrote in his paper.

	--ravi