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This effect even gets reinforced by the European journalists: a German speaking journalist will read German and English sources. A Spanish journalist will read
by Hermel 13y ago
This effect even gets reinforced by the European journalists: a German speaking journalist will read German and English sources. A Spanish journalist will read Spanish and English sources, etc. Having the "lingua franca" is a huge asset for the Anglosphere. It not only affects the flow of news, it also leads to cultural dominance (everyone watches Hollywood movies, but European movies are primarily shown in their home countries, same goes for music). I would say that average Jean in many European countries knows more about the Anglosaxon legal system than their own one - just because they get exposed to TV shows about US lawyers all the time. The French try to fight that influence - but I think resistance is futile. Instead, the Europeans should try to find angles to inject their own views into the English news & culture stream. This leads to one large globalized, multi-cultural soup of values - but that's better than an Anglosaxon dominated soup of values. The times where each country could have their own soup are over.
- 1stop 13y agoLanguage is culture, good luck injecting chinese expressions into english... they just don't work. Language is the way we think, translating the way we think to one language changes how we think (i.e things are lost). > The times where each country could have their own soup are over. There are more people who don't care about the anglosaxon world than there are people who do care (China is a prime example here).
- mkr-hn 13y ago> Language is culture, good luck injecting chinese expressions into english... they just don't work. Ni hao English has a lot of loan words and imported phrases, and new ones are always on the horizon.
- sliverstorm 13y agoClearly he means expressions, e.g. idioms and that sort of thing. It's time to jump off the stage at Kiyomizu Quick, without using Google tell me what I mean.
- mkr-hn 13y ago> Clearly he means I wouldn't have posted if a different interpretation were clear.
- sliverstorm 13y agoNi Hao is not an expression any more than Hello is. Expression: a word or phrase, esp. an idiomatic one, used to convey an idea.
- rjtavares 13y agoIndeed. I'm often amazed at the kind of American news reported by the Portuguese media and think "Why aren't we getting these news about European countries?". At the same time, I'm part of the problem: I know more about American politics than German politics, even though the latter affects me a lot more.