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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Jun 1 10:48:35 2009, in response to Re: What's Sonia Sotomayor's racial background?, posted by LuchAAA on Sun May 31 23:20:15 2009. Since you're losing the argument, turn to ridicule. Common tactic, but one I've learned to expect from your type.I'm sorry. I wanted to inject a bit of levity into the discussion to illustrate the failure of America's mass media to educate. Education takes the form of not only formal educational programs but also of using grammatically correct language during entertainment fare. Most Russians in my Queens neighborhood, or at Transit told me they hadn't studied much if any English in Russia, and talked about how hard it was to learn English...Again, not too many Russians from Uzbekistan, Georgia, or the Ukraine learned English before coming here. We obviously travel in different circles. I had a graduate engineer from Kiev working for me. Mastery of English was not one of his shortcomings. My Spanish is fluent, and I never even lived in Mexico...Many countries are like that [English lessons on the television]. Even Mexico I'm a bit confused. I'll accept your statement regarding your fluency in Spanish and never having lived in Mexico. Doesn't that preclude your expertise regarding how Mexican hotel personnel spend their time? BTW, those TV English lessons in China were on broadcast television. Not only hotel personnel watched them. The local populace would practice what they had learned on our group the next day. So you condone anti-semitism?...Are you saying that religious oppression is a "value"? No, I'm saying the propensity for learning foreign languages is uncorrelated with the presence or absence of religious freedom. Spanish media continues to grow rapidly, because the attitude of most Hispanics in America is that assimilation is a bad thing. I suspect Spanish media growth is somewhat correlated to increasing numbers of Spanish immigrants. This is why Spanish television and radio have grown, while the Asians and Russians can't even maintain a low-powered television station in most markets. The availability of foreign language packages on cable television has probably obscured trends that might be ascertained by studying only over the air broadcast media. There is certainly no lack of Asian or Russian printed media in Flushing. |
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