Suppose a girl born in Vancouver Canada with parents immigrants from China reads James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Can she claim as an English-speaking person that this great novel written by an Irishman is her native literature? It seems to me she can because as English-speaking by birth she has the same cultural identity as for example an English-speaking Australian whose great grandparents were both English. Whatever identity we have as English-speakers it is a solid identity. We need to do something to assert its reality. We are already citizens of one English-speaking state out of 70 and we need to see that the political unity of the 70 is crucial to our cultural, political and economic well being in a new globalized world.
Daniel McNeill
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