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Jiang frames Chinese students' pursuit of English, U.S. dollars, and Western immigration as a historically constructed game rather than natural self-interest.
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British schooling works as elite indoctrination: English education teaches colonial elites to see British culture as superior and to seek British mobility.
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British schooling works as elite indoctrination: English education teaches colonial elites to see British culture as superior and to seek British mobility.
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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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Shakespeare gives English fluency to the British because the culture expects readers to know and recite him.
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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 claims English spreads soft power because learning the language also means learning a culture and history, a British advantage later inherited by Americans.
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Jiang identifies English as a civilizational innovation because it can be learned at any age to useful proficiency, unlike languages that require childhood immersion for strong command.
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"...you do is you spend a lot of your time learning english in fact you probably spend more time learning english than you do..."
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"in life is to immigrate to a western country uh specifically united states right you all want to go united states for college get..."
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"respect and status in china okay but instead you learn english um u.s dollars doesn't make any sense what you really want is status..."
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"be common people in the united states or britain or canada so it's a really weird game and so the question we want i..."
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"...you went to these schools, what did you learn? You learned English. But when you learn English, what do you learn? You learn that..."
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"But if you go through the British system, you might win a scholarship to go study at Oxford or Cambridge, okay? You even might..."
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"...the question we're looking at today is, how did Shakespeare transform English into the language of empire? So for the longest time, English is..."
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"...vastly superior. And the reason why is because most people speak English. And we absorb our understanding of the world through language, OK? So..."
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"...of emic metameter. If you really want to be fluent in English, just read Shakespeare aloud for a few months and your English will..."
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"...Right? So it's Shakespeare that allows the British to have amazing English. All right. So this is very complicated. But it's actually not that..."
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"...All right. So let's summarize what we learned, okay? Shakespeare turns English into the world's linguistic internet, a platform which all cultures, ideas, and..."
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"...first time, all cultures are able to meet together within the English language and communicate with each other. Okay? There's a problem with this...."
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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