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Likely because American Idol is an example of the general inanity of Americans. Can't say I blame them.
Agreed, but that is not the reason. Many sectors in Europe are also desperately trying to deflect the take over of english. The western weapon is the english language - as happened when England and France were entangled in their war for lands. China does not want democrasy, and is deflecting anything western - represented by English and Coca Cola, Macdonalds and American Idol.
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But that is still totally irrelevant to anything in this thread
Mine are merely responses to this particular stream of debate. I think I will drop myself from this thread now, and let you guys make some sense of it for yourselves.
cheers.