We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

-Jared Diamond

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We Know From Our Recent History That

Jared Diamond

We Know From Our Recent History That English Did Not Come To Replace U.s. Indian Languages Merely Because English Sounded Musical To Indians' Ears. Instead, The Replacement Entailed English-speaking Immigrants' Killing Most Indians By War, Murder, And Introduced Diseases, And The Surviving Indians' Being Pressured Into Adopting English, The New Majority Language.

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War

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[w]hat Makes Patriotic And Religious Fanatics Such Dangerous Opponents Is Not The Deaths Of The Fanatics Themselves, But Their Willingness To Accept The Deaths Of A Fraction Of Their Number In Order To Annihilate Or Crush Their Infidel Enemy.

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Religious

Patriotic