Glossary
Used by Jiang to describe English's de facto world dominance and to criticize the flattening of cultures into a shared linguistic medium.
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global language
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...mean you can make the argument that English is already the global language it's been a global language for hundreds of years and as..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...mean you can make the argument that English is already the global language it's been a global language for hundreds of years and as..."
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diagnosis
Jiang argues that English already functions as a global language and that its dominance has contributed to a civilizational dumbing-down because human beings are not meant to abandon culturally rooted languages for a universal one.
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"...mean you can make the argument that English is already the global language it's been a global language for hundreds of years and as..."
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"...well we talked a bit before uh about um technology and language and cultural barriers um do you see the possibility of a new..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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