largely you are on target, other than there are much bigger countries in
both size and populations;
examples in India the bets estimate is that 65-80% of the people are
multilingual, the indians are 1.2 bil, so the vastness of the us is
hardly an "excuse"
I agree that the faults are mostly at the level of education between 2 & 16
(yrs of age)
when I was a student in the Us, I am talking about the 20th century, not
Hamilton and Washington's times, I found people who asked me seriously
whether
"europeans" had running water or sewage systems (for the record running
water was common in Cordoba under the islamic rule till the queen kicked
out the moros....)
I would suggest there is a peculiar insularity of the americans, at times
endearing, at times laughable.
For instance I find it to be laughable and serious that the country is
insulated by oceans, hence they go to war for all sorts of reasons in
places wher ethey
understand nothing, nothing even fo what 'victory' would be
but that is another story- now the fight is with a virus and I fear the
american Behemoth of aircraft carriers and nuclear boomers has very little
to shoot....
best to David
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:57 PM david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Apr 17, 2020, at 3:58 AM, adriano paolo shaul gershom palma <
palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I see no reason why americans ought not have school programs, and it will
be easy given the pool of teachers available, not many hwmong teachers in
paris....
plenty in los angeles
People refer to “America” and “Americans” as if it were some small place,
or in any way an “United” set of states. There is much bilingual education
here, but there is also American Exceptionalism. I agree with you very
few of my students arrive in college with much understanding of foreign
countries, foreign languages, the past…it’s quite a list. And what they
are sure of—that an essay must have five paragraphs and a thesis
statement—needs expansion. Among the best things you can do for an
American college student is put her on a plane. Well that was true before
the fine mess we’re now in Ollie.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
