Even as free trade and electronic communications bring the world closer together, kinship still counts.

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While many believe translation has the capacity to bring the world closer together, some are concerned that the combined forces of translation technology, globalization and the internet will spawn a global monoculture.

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Both would bring the people of the world closer together.

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