Although I do feel that it is okay to have different dialects of the language, I also feel that when teaching the language it should only be taught one way. ... The national debate on Ebonics did little to clarify the misunderstandings about the hist6ory of the language. ... I feel that the slave masters knew that language is power. ... The controversy over the Ebonics language goes beyond linguistics. ... The purpose of this argument is to give students the opportunity to learn the proper ways of language and how other dialects of language develop. ...

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Our national favorite foods include ackee (from Ghana) and saltfish. ... While our official language is English, most Jamaicans speak a Creole patois - a mixture of Elizabethan English and West African that's often hard to understand, In my household my parents and siblings speak the language, but I am not able to speak it because I've been here in this country for such a long time. ...

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For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its Constitution to the daily practices of its citizens--is a response to the absent/objectified presence of the black Other or, in her words, "to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence" (5). She goes on to say: Just as the formation of the nation necessitated coded language and purposeful restrictions ... so too did the literature, whose founding characteristics extend into the twentieth...

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South Africa has eleven official languages, including Afrikaans and English, and the rand is the official currency. ... Rugby is predominantly played by white people, which is also the national sport of the country. ... Many of the people spend weekends on game reserves, beaches, or national parks. ...

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(Iyer, BR p. 306) In our world today, we exchange language, goods, values, and people. ... The global village is able to exchange languages, goods, values, and people through popular media. ... As Iyer introduced into his writing, "As national borders fall, tribal alliances, and new manmade divisions, rise up, and the world learns ever day terrible new meanings of the word Balkanization"(Iyer, BR p. 305) One might think that more and more of the world is looking like America, but it is America that is looking more like the rest of the world. ...

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Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, notes that "In New York I have always felt that I was at the center of the world, in a modern Babylon, a sort of Borgesian aleph with representation of all the languages, religions, and cultures of the planet, and from which there circulate to the globe all fashions and vices, values and nonvalues, usages, customs, music, images and prototypes resulting from the incredible mixtures in this city"(393). ... According to Saskia Sassen, focusing on cities in an analysis of economic globalization signals the declining significance of the national economy ...

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However, creating literature, which is communicable across many different realms, is difficult considering the various language borders. ... Current social and cultural practices, along with the highest national birth rate will keep the virus in circulation, regardless of awareness. ...

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Nationalism began the idea of national superiority. ... Christianity, western European languages, and Imperialism benefited underdeveloped regions through improved transportation, education, and medical care. ...

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