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Language of Empire
Sometimes, it's the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter.
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[W]ords create realities even though ... [it] essentially passes unnoticed ... Largely uncommented upon, [language] helps normalize American practices in the world, comfortably shielding us from certain global realities; but it also has the potential to blind us to those realities, which, in perilous times, can be dangerous indeed.
--From this article:
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KC03Df02.html
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[W]ords create realities even though ... [it] essentially passes unnoticed ... Largely uncommented upon, [language] helps normalize American practices in the world, comfortably shielding us from certain global realities; but it also has the potential to blind us to those realities, which, in perilous times, can be dangerous indeed.
--From this article:
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KC03Df02.html
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