The Language As Culture blog posts and reacts to a TED talk on the supremacy of English. The essayist's analysis on one of the points raised:policy makers fear the increasing number of Spanish speaking immigrants will somehow threaten the large hold English has on power in America. The point here is that measuring language’s values can be done but it is pointless because language is not a lone factor in deciding policies that affect an entire nation and groups of people (education, voting, etc….).
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