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acceptability to the losers。    
Russian emerged from World War II as a mighty language; but it failed to bluster  
beyond the bounds of the Communist empire。 Russian even failed to inspire people to  
learn it inside their empire。 Students in Hungary; Romania; and East Germany knew no  
more Russian after eight years of schooling than Americans know French after similar  
exposure。    
English; on the other hand; was welcomed。 Africans and Asians may not have  
rejoiced at being forcibly incorporated into the British Empire; but they recognised that  
the English language; if learned by all; was a unifying tool that enabled different tribes  
who lived five miles apart to communicate for the first time; in a language brought down  
upon them from thousands of miles away。    
A wolf will lift his neck to let a larger wolf know that he accepts the other’s  
dominant role as leader。 The entire world has lifted its neck to acknowledge English as    
 
the language of choice in the modern world。 It wasn’t all military and commercial power;  
either。 American movies; songs; comic strips; TV series; even T…shirts all helped make  
English the international language of the earth by acclaim。    
But only the shortsighted will consider the dominance of English reason to return  
foreign language materials to the bookstore and forget the whole thing。 It’s precisely  
because the peoples of the world honour our language that we get so much more  
appreciation when we go out of our way to honour theirs。         


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