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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
The other finally is that I have the advantage of teaching in a less charged atmosphere than in the US. I don't have to cope with that tension between social class, race and type of English, but if you explain about appropriate tone for different situations, perhaps some of that tension can be diffused.
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I don't know that it's entirely a question of being charged, but we're a nation of 300 million people dispersed over a landmass the size of a continent. The idea that we could have a uniform anything is a lie of modern history. In any other time period without modern forms of communication we would simply culturally evolve into countless cultures that had little to do with one another, but because of modern technology we are thrust together with the idiotic notion that all of us should naturally be the same simply because we all have "America" labeled on our butts.
Without the "benefit" of electricity and whatnot we'd all eventually be different cultures the same as Europe is assuming Europe hadn't evolved with Morse code and radio and whatnot after the fall of the Roman Empire.