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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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duncan@lightning.eee.strath.ac.uk (Duncan THOMSON) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <DUNCAN.95Jun14125806@lightning.eee.strath.ac.uk>:
>eaglesto@bnr.ca (Robert Eaglestone) writes:
>
>Esperanto has all of this.  To me that signifies that it does not lack
>a cultural heritage.
>
>Cultures are born and grow, shrink and die.  One would never think of
>saying, for example, that the US has no cultural heritage, since it
>didn't exist 500 years ago.  Esperanto's culture may be younger, but
>is no less valid for that.
>
Actually, there are some (mostly in Europe) who would insist that, 500 
years or no 500 years, the U.S. has no culture. See the recent exchange 
on this subject in the magazine _esperanto_ -- the one B. Golden got 
so ticked off about.

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