Tribal worthies and American officers grin at each other across the language divide.

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And the language divide is much less contentious in Wales and Scotland than it is in Canada, where pressure for independence in Quebec is intimately bound up with French-speakers' worry about the survival of their language and culture.

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No language-barrier, gender-inequality or racial-divide was going to stop them from meeting their goals.

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The two nations share no common language, and as for Islamic traditions, there is a deep divide.

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