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In as much as we support cultural variety and identity, we recognize
the enormous value that a diversity of languages has to this effect. A
language barrier is the most efficient self-defense of any independent
community against wholesale US cultural imperialism. English may serve
the purpose of communication between different cultures. But of what
pertaines to the internal aspects of a culture, as much as possible
should be in a language of its own. And not just in a spoken language
of its own, but if possible also in a writing system of its own.
Actually, because not every language is equally suited to express
certain ideas, the ideologies that make one culture different from
another, are, to a certain extend, a direct consequence of the fact
that a different language is spoken and written. For in the same way
in which our economic interests form our opinions, so a language has
its own dynamics of creating ideas. That East Asia is the culturally
most diverse corner of the world is in direct corelation to the
presence of more different languages and writing systems than anywhere
else. This must be preserved.
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