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Is English Language So Popular because of the USA? - 0 views
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Americans might tend to inflate the influence of the United States in the history of the spread of English. Before the World Wars, particularly WWII, the US was a bit player on the world stage. The folks with the big international footprint were England, France, Spain, and Portugal.
Look around the world and you can see the linguistic legacy of the colonial era stamped all over the globe. India, Australia, Kenya, and Guyana were all under England's kind protection, and English is the primary or secondary language in all of them. France made its biggest play in West Africa, and you'd better know French if you want to get around in that part of the world without knowing a local language like Wolof or Pulaar. Spain conquered most of the Americas south of the present-day US, so your best language to get around most countries in the Western Hemisphere is Spanish. Portugal had Brazil and some big territories in Africa - learn Portuguese if you plan to attend the next World Cup or Summer Olympics.
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On the other hand, China and Japan were never conquered by European powers, and the level of English or other European languages that is spoken by their citizens is a constant source of concern in those countries regarding their ability to compete overseas. And Korea has had a massive American military presence for almost 70 years, but very few people, relatively, who can communicate in the language effectively.
So, up until the wars, the spread of European languages had almost nothing to do with the US, and English was already widespread because the British were very good at expanding their empire.
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After the wars, the US got busy internationally in six big ways:
Military bases wherever we could plant them, particularly during the Cold War
US corporate expansion, from Ford to Coca Cola
Entertainment, particularly Hollywood and the Beatles. Oh wait, the Beatles were British, but we did export a lot of other music
Tourism
Technology
Scientific research
All of those activities had some effect on spreading English, but not as much as you might think.
As mentioned, US bases in Korea did little to extend the language there (a pedagogical focus on communication rather than rote memorization of written English would do a lot more, because the appetite is certainly there), and I would suggest that there wasn't much of a ripple attributable to American bases even in places like Germany where English became the go-to second language. If the primary language of the US were Dutch or Spanish, I doubt that you'd see much of either of those languages on the streets at any distance from our bases.
US corporations that want to do business internationally have long since discovered that their marketing needs to be in the local language. The influence of commerce on the spread of the language is vast for a different reason - international companies need a common language for their international employees. Is English that language because many managers of multinational corporations have been American? Or because business leaders from elsewhere have often come to the US to get their training? In either case, English is the language that you need in order to do business on the world stage, and that probably has a lot to do with it being the primary language for the big US corporations that have spread worldwide. If the US spoke French or German, there would probably be a lot more parents around the world who wanted their kids to learn those languages as a stepping-stone to getting good employment.
Source: Quora, Martin Benjamin, speaks English good,Written Jun 23, 2013
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Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views
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1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but only one-eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.
3. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
4. Blondes have more hair. The average human head has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person's lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles. People with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles, those with brown hair have 100,000 follicles. Redheads have the least dense hair, averaging about 86,000 follicles.
5. At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
6. In a lifetime, the average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva, enough to fill two swimming pools.
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7. There are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
8. Heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through those vessels every day.
9. Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
10. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
11. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
12. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
13. The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
14. One uses 200 muscles to take one step.
15. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
16. One gets a new stomach lining every three to four days. If you didn't, the strong acids your stomach uses to digest food would also digest your stomach.
17. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.
18. Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
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19. The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
20. There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
21. Women hearts beat faster than men.
22. Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
23. Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
24. The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
25. In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
26. People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
27. At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions.
28. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
29. From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
30. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
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