<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>jared diamond on madd0's tech blog</title><link>/tags/jared-diamond/</link><description>Recent content in jared diamond on madd0's tech blog</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:37:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/jared-diamond/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Americans and Multilingualism</title><link>/2013/07/19/americans-and-multilingualism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:37:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>/2013/07/19/americans-and-multilingualism/</guid><description>Modern Americans often assume that multilingualism should be discouraged, because it is supposed to hinder child language acquisition and immigrant assimilation.
— Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
And to think that these people effectively rule the world…</description></item></channel></rss>