I had an impulse to post something. I'm in the process of watching The Daily Show online, the episode from March 20th, courtesy of comedynetwork.ca (because apparently comedycentral.com is not accessible in Canada, bah). There's a reporter on that just came back from Iraq whom Jon Stewart is interviewing. Being the five year anniversary of the war in Iraq, the reporter mentioned that after five years, the soldiers don't really know Arabic, yet are walking around the streets of Baghdad policing some areas. My question is this: if they are going to be there for an extended period of time, would it not be more beneficial for them to learn the language? Maybe that's just my cross-cultural-trained perspective. If I was going to be in an area for more than six months, I would choose to learn the language. You'd think that would make America seem less ethnocentric, but since that is not the way we are, I suppose that shouldn't surprise me.
Anyway.. that's my little break from homework. Now I'm back at it
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