<Know how 1.3 billion think because they speak the same language>
So how do you explain civil war elm? If all are thinking the same, then the linguistic clones would all shout sieg heil and goose-step in perfect synchronisation. But they don't.
I find I have more in common with people who are not rugby, racing and beer NZers but who have similar backgrounds to me, whether they are from India, Japan or Colombia.
Your theory is old-fashioned racism by another name elm. People are not prisoners of their language. People are individuals with individual minds.
1.3 billion Chinese do not think the same as each other.
I watched silly Jiang Zemin riding around in a flash car, inspecting the troops, during China's 50th celebrations. He'd call "sieg" and the crowd would respond "heil", or words to that effect. It was hilarious. It looked as though it was straight out of a John Cleese or Monty Python episode. Another funny episode was in the Great Hall of the People or some such, with everyone sitting up straight, with blank faces, listening to the Great Leader, looking like Saddam's cabinet meeting where everyone kept their hands on the table, sitting up straight, both eyes on the Great Leader, and with fear in the air.
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