In sequential cultures (like North American, English, German, Swedish, and Dutch), businesspeople give full attention to one agenda item after another.

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Still, Bush argues that immigrants who are in the country illegally can only earn legal status if they take steps toward assimilation, like learning English and American civics.

CNN: Jeb Bush weighs in on 'multiculturalism' - CNNPolitics.com

By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.

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With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.

BBC: Why Fleet Street fears Europe

The youngest of five siblings all with American-sounding first names like Phyllis and Sidney Tsujihara grew up speaking English at home, even though his parents could speak Japanese.

NPR: From Eggs To Film: A Japanese-American Studio Head

In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.

WSJ: Book Review: Sincerity