If mono-lingualism is necessary to help the disadvantged, then why are
speakers of non-English languages not allowed to use their own language
when they write for Antipode, or Progress in Human Geography?
And why are for (example) Finnish students from a poor rural background
prevented from getting a degree in Geography if they can not read
the language of David Harvey? (Every student of geography in western
Europe has to pass a de facto test of competence in English. And the
rural poor of Finland are bilingual anyway).
And if British universities' language policy is motivated by concern
for the disadvantaged in Britain, then why don't they teach in Urdu,
Bengali or Sylheti?
In other words: a defence of Anglo-monolingualism, by appealing to
equality of opportunity, is racist hyprocisy.
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