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Support for Reparations

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The Soviet placard in the background is a visual reminder that if anybody won the Cold War, it wasn’t the people who speak English.

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    PaulS

    The fact that they’re speaking English is a reminder that the Russians lost the cold war.

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      Clarissa

      This is truly the first time that I’ve heard anybody advance the idea that the purposes of the Cold War were linguistic. 😀

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        PaulS

        Language is taken very seriously in SA. One of the reasons the apartheid was invented was to preserve Afrikaans from being replaced by English.

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          Clarissa

          Cubans still speak Spanish but they are completely Soviet in everything else. Everything that was Latin about them is gone. So yes, language is important but it’s not all-powerful.

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            PaulS

            Yes, and Afrikaners have more in common with American conservatives than the Dutch, which is a major reason why the whole project was abandoned.

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