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Connected Knowledge and the language barrier

Commentary by jaap () on link by AK, Connected Knowledge and the language barrier, March 4, 2011.

This is a good point. But there is more in it.
A blogpost in a non English language often comes from members from other cultures with different views. In that way members only reading English do miss a lot of the 'weak ties' and challenging information from foreign people.
Even education and science in non-English countries differs from that in English countries. The education system and the content of education differs. In USA far more people seem to believe constructivistic philosophical views on epistomology than in continental Europe.
So it is not only a language barrier, it is a far reaching cultural barrier.

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Re: Connected Knowledge and the language barrier

zapotepetl, March 4, 2011
My contact to the world es very very poor.
I only sort of manage 3 languages, and can try and make some sense of several written romanic languages.
Unfortunately, I only speak one of the 62 live languages spoken in my country...
The problem for me is not merely "the access to information" mentioned in the original post, but more important, what is in the root of languages: I am missing 61 cosmologies and ways of seing and understanding the world.

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