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Old 18th February 2008, 21:35   #68 (permalink)
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Re: How Thai interfers with learning English

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Originally Posted by av8tor
I think the posters claiming that intellectual capacity and the ability to think are somehow curtailed by specific L1's are full of crap. Sounds like 19th century racism: The neallw white man's burden is to do the world's thinking for it, because his language is so much superior.
It's called linguistic determinism. I see the fact that English is the language of science, medicine, aviation, computer technology, tourism, and diplomacy as SELLING points of English only.
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