700 Reasons: Reason #310
- Reason: 310
- As one reflects on the war zones of the world in the last decades of the 20th century, it is striking just how many of them are in countries which are predominantly monolingual - Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi... It is, in short, a total myth that the sharing of a single language brings peace
- Reference:
- Crystal, D. (2000) Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Related Keywords:
- Multilingualism, Social cohesion, Values
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