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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.

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Nakoichi [they/them]
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One aspect of genocide is forced cultural assimilation just saying.

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