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[kurupetos]

...multiculturalism!

[Cap]

The accent always cracks me up.

[Piratis]

I don't think the video has anything to do with multiculturalism. Those children already adopted the Greek language and they can be asimilated and become part of the Greek culture and nation. So where do you see the problem?

[GreekIslandGirl]

They sound sweet. The more people that learn to speak Greek, the better the world would be. Greek for the cerebral challenge and the creativity it produces (there's some research about that) and English for global run-of-the-mill communication. Perfect.

[kurupetos]

I don't think the video has anything to do with multiculturalism. Those children already adopted the Greek language and they can be asimilated and become part of the Greek culture and nation. So where do you see the problem?

Their parents are not Greek. Am I eligible to become English just because I speak English?

[Piratis]

I don't think the video has anything to do with multiculturalism. Those children already adopted the Greek language and they can be asimilated and become part of the Greek culture and nation. So where do you see the problem?

Their parents are not Greek. Am I eligible to become English just because I speak English?

Your case is not analogous. A similar example would be that of Cypriots who emigraded abroad and their children were born and raised there.

[GreekIslandGirl]

The interesting snippet about Greek ...

A Right Brain Religion Translated into a Left Brain Language
DECEMBER 8, 2011


Is Ancient Greek a left brain language? And Ancient Hebrew a right brain one? Yes, says Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. And, he says, it has a huge bearing on how the Bible has been understood.

Most of the Old Testament was written in Ancient Hebrew. Like most early scripts, Ancient Hebrew was written like Hebrew and Arabic are today—without vowels and written from right to left. It is a right brain language, says Sacks, because to understand the meaning of any word, “you have to understand the total context in which it occurs.”

Sacks sees it this way:

Ancient Greek was the first language ever to be written from left to right, which activates the left brain. You don’t need to understand the total context here. You derive meaning word by word, in small components.

The emergence of the world’s first left brain language also coincided with the first instances of “left brain thinking”: the philosophy of Aristotle, Epicurus and other Greek scholars. This atomistic, evidence-based approach to interpreting the world eventually led to modern-day science.

http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/a-right ... -language/

[DrCyprus]

For God's sake, the guy is a rabbi, he is not a linguist. He is a pretentious religious muppet spoonfeeding you sugarcoated religious propaganda.

All languages are equal. All languages activate both hemispheres.

[Get Real!]

It is a right brain language, says Sacks, because to understand the meaning of any word, “you have to understand the total context in which it occurs.”

Problem is, Sacks most likely arrived at this childish conclusion using the fuzzy gray area between his hemispheres!

[supporttheunderdog]

I am just wating for the usual suspects to make few anti-semitic remarks but I doubt they will whan it supports their version of Hellinism, which I find as obnoxious as zionism and the nax\zism they so admire,,,,