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After reading Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson and the New York Times article, “The Bird Watcher, The Incident, and His Feelings on the Woman’s Fate” (see Links on our D2L class site for this article), please post responses to one the following questions. And please respond to at least two posts by other students.

If you’re black, was there something in particular that Dyson (in his book) and Christian Cooper (in the article) discussed that explains how it feels to be black in America?
Dyson and Cooper explain that if we are to make racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or demonized. If you’re not black, what do Dyson and Cooper say that you didn’t know or perhaps now realize you need to know?

 

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Even as pidgin English, consumers and business executives alike are much more likely to use the English language in plans, projects and trade deals than other languages such as Mandarin Chinese which said to be vital to global economics. This is due to the complex nature of Chinese as a foreign language, and the embedded history of English in many parts of the world due to historical colonisation. Pidgin English is a “grammatically simplified form of a language … some elements … [are] … taken from local languages … [and] … used for communication between people … [as a] … common language.” (Oxford Dictionary, 2018).

 

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Although the English language may be of significance within the business world, French should not be neglected as an important language within economics and education. Examining the language needs of Great Britain as a nation, there are skills which the English language lacks when referring to indexes such as current exportation from the UK, language activities of the general public, and immigration/emigration within the European and French speaking population.

 

 

Results of a 2015 survey conducted by the British Council place French as the third most favourable foreign language in global trade after Spanish and Arabic, and third in the top ten most important export markets in 2012 following German and Dutch. Furthermore, 49% of British multinational corporations rate French as a language which is valuable to their organisation – significantly higher than the other “essential” trade languages such as Mandarin Chinese, only rated useful by 28% of companies. (CBI, 2013).

 

 

With France being Britain’s third most important export market (where English does not hold L1 status), the commercial benefits of the French language undeniably place it in line with, or in close second to English as a profitable language by UK, European and global businesses. Nations where French is recognised as an L1, such as France, Belgium and Luxembourg, are vital to the UK economy– these three countries alone bring £35 billion through exportation of British products every year. (Office of National Statistics, 2013.)

 

 

The economic value of the English language is tremendous, and advantageous for

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