Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I would almost accept your point if you agree to only read French or Chinese in future. You will find how much it will divorce you from the culture that you live in.
I don't find this at all. I speak both English and Greek fluently, and find that the people speaking it makes much more difference than the language. When my Greek relatives speak to me in English, they still speak from a Greek cultural perspective.
You seem to be arguing a cultural relativist position, which I think frankly is nonsense, even if it sometimes is popular in "critical theory" academic circles.
-Mark