The Dollar and the American Language

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

"The Dollar and the American Language": (BBC says that "[a] third of
people on the planet will be learning English in the next decade."
The US Empire has three pillars: the Dollar, the Sword, and the
American Language. The three pillars support one another. Just as the
dollar, made the global reserve currency by the sword, has allowed
Washington to run an empire on budget and trade deficits, the
American Language, the chief inheritor of the linguistic estate of
the British Empire and its colonial subjects, has allowed Washington
to manage the empire on foreign language education deficits, sparing
it the costs of establishing a British-style colonial civil service.
As the dollar goes south, however, will fewer people in the world be
studying American English, and will Americans be finally compelled to
learn a foreign language or two?): -- FULL TEXT:
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/dollar-and-american-language.html>.
--
Yoshie

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