主题：【文摘】北美独立战争: 美国人编出来的神话 -- 李根

但也得帮助俺们广大受毒害的群众明白起来啊！

--Buddy, my business is not history education. America is not a cheap or easy place to survive. I need to work my butts off to put bread in my mouth... I never learned Chinese input on PC before and it takes me long time to write one Chinese paragraph on forum. That's why I use English.

BTW, before I read your post, I do not know there are 广大受毒害的群众. No, I am not kidding. Because I was not poisoned.

虽然美国人自己经常掀，无奈精蝇统统当作看不见

--not easy anymore, internet is YOUR tool. 民智已开, nobody can prevent you from accessing multiple perspectives. I often see new perspectives on various issues from my own internet learning. Internet makes me more informed and open-minded. ONe just need to open up his or her mind and search Google or Yahoo or wiki these days.

您的见解早就在三楼以上了，俺们还在这里吭哧吭哧地从地下室往一楼爬，您也不能只笑话俺们水平低而不拉一把呀。比如要求俺学第二外语，还是把俺打回高中好吧

--you sound sort of sarcastic. I am not sure whether you are attacking me here or not. Below is my serious talk:

I have to say language skill is your tool of work/survival and enlightment. You live in States, and should know it well.

比如要求俺学第二外语，还是把俺打回高中好吧--that's too sarcastic. Chinese old proverb is 活到老学到老--do not forget our virtue. I learned Dutch when I was 26, and French when I was 36. They are very close to English, much easier to learn after you have english foundation.

BTW, the dirty trick you mentioned above is NOTHING new. That trick has been practised by the Roman Catholic Church ever since 5th century until 20th century.

Modern English/Dutch/German came into existence around 15th-17th century, ALL DUE TO THE fact that Englishmen/Dutchmen/Germans were fed up with the misleading teaching by Catholic priests. These three languages were created by break-away monks who wanted to spread the true Biblical messages to their compatriots and break the Catholic monopoly over Bible.

Before them, in the West Europe, Bible is only available in Latin, the dead language of Roman Empire. Only priests know this language and only they had access to Bible.

When Bible was translated into English/Dutch/German, even average Joes can easily understand the true messages from God, the dark age was finished and enlightment started.

That's what we called "Reformation"--it shook the world and gave birth to the dynamic protestant nations, such as UK/Nederlands/US/Canada(excluding Quebec)/Australia. The rise of Western World will not happen if there was no reformation.

If you check the PBC empire series, Luther was listed one empire-maker because he helped the creation of German and he translated Bible from Latin(he also consulted the Greek version) to German.

AND THIS REVOLUTION STARTS FROM THE BREAKDOWN OF LANGUAGE MONOPOLY. NOW I HOPE YOU SEE THE POWER OF LANGUAGE.

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fyi, Catholic church services were still performed in Latin in various European nations until 1960 while most of their church-goers in Europe actually did not understand the priest preaching at all.

You are shocked? hehe. Not surprising to me.

Some Chinese live in western society, but often do not truly integrate into it, because they 对学习外语非常抵触. Then you end up live in the 中文 world, which is strictly controlled by CCP Propaganda Dept. When you refuse to learn other people's language, YOU ARE PUTTING UP A WALL BETWEEN YOU AND ANOTHER WORLD/CIVILIZATION/CULTURE.

Who to blame? CCP, Chinese language or yourself?