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Right, I wonder how much we are, globally speaking, becoming very Anglo-centric in our understanding of history, merely because we use the English language for
by bonoboTP 5y ago
Right, I wonder how much we are, globally speaking, becoming very Anglo-centric in our understanding of history, merely because we use the English language for international communication and therefore it's easier to consume histories and writings produced by Anglos.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoMaybe not that much. At my British university (Imperial) the majority of the students at the very least don't look "Anglo" and don't have Anglo names. When I started my PhD I was greeted with an email with the names of all other PhDs starting at the same year, cc'd. So I saw everyone's names (in Office 360- you can see the names attached to the email addresses) and I think there were two or three recognisably Anglosaxon names in about 80 names. So I suspect it's more that English is used as a lingua franca for students and researchers from all over the world, than that students and researchers are predominantly native English speakers. Myself, for example, am not a native English speaker :)