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English is not just grammar and vocabulary; learning English means absorbing Anglo-American culture, philosophy, and identity through soft power.
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Anglo American Culture
English is not just grammar and vocabulary; learning English means absorbing Anglo-American culture, philosophy, and identity through soft power.
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Shakespeare turns English into a linguistic internet where cultures and ideas meet, but the exchange is mediated through utilitarian, skeptical, empirical Anglo-American civilization.
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Jiang judges Anglo-American culture, despite global dominance, as practical, narrow-minded, and less artistically or philosophically impressive than Russian, German, Homeric, Virgilian, and Dantean traditions.
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"...it's really, through soft power, convinced everyone to believe that Anglo -American culture is really the best in the world."
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"...argument that Russian and German culture is far superior to Anglo -American culture. But everyone, especially young people in the world today, believes that..."
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"It is activating all your emotions, all your senses. There's the visual, okay? There's a sound, there's a smell, there's a touch. And gathering..."
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"the first time, all cultures are able to meet together within the English language and communicate with each other. Okay? There's a problem with..."
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"-American culture, even though it dominates the world, it's pretty lackluster. It's very narrow -minded. It's very practical. It's pretty mediocre. Okay? And if..."
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"Why did Adam and Eve eat that forbidden fruit, and why were we banished from the Garden of Eden? And look, it's 12 books...."
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"...achievement. So to get a sense of the essence of Anglo -American culture, I'm going to read to you a passage from Paradise Lost...."
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