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...anti-immigrant Northern League sums up what this vote is about, “Switzerland is sending to us a clear signal; yes to bell towers, no to minarets.” It is very much about Islam, and the rejection of a “foreign?? culture...
...globalization of English is less a manifestation of the squashing of foreign mores than a reflection of today’s reality: a mingling of cultures. The RAE worries about English’s infiltration into Spain, but English, too, is increasingly peppered with foreign??particularly, Spanish—words. (I used “Adios!” long before I enrolled in a Spanish class.) According to the 2000 census, over 46 million people living in U.S. speak a language other than English at home. Like foreigners, Americans feel threatened. American politicians have turned whether...
...positive reviews, and received a Best Foreign Film nod. Why the Japanese? Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima” just might take Oscar’s Best Picture category. It’s an unconventional war film, one subtitled but not quite foreign??Eastwood is just about as American as you can get, Yet “Letters” has found success outside America’s borders. Its foreign box office gross is four times higher than its domestic totals. My personal favorite for Best Picture, the film...
...there’s an important thread that links each of these separate events, and it’s not police brutishness or the unsurprising frequency of “foreign?? victims’ names. More significant is the proliferation of cheap camera technology in tandem with aggregation sites like YouTube.com, which has enabled the average citizen to play the role of reporter. Describing events from a witness box is one thing, but the accuracy and clarity of video is a likely trump card in the hands of the victim, especially when hundreds of thousands of people have...
...ways in which language is ineluctably tied to identity. Sen speaks of languages as if they themselves are actors and have agency, describing them as “wily survivalists.” She posits that as languages get incorporated into cultures, they cease to be “foreign??. In the case of India, Sen says, “English is not a foreign language to India—how Indians speak it and write it, it’s another Indian language.” Sen’s work brings into question the boundaries that...