We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.


Guns, Germs And Steel (ed. Random House, 2013) - ISBN: 9781448180202

Jared Diamond Quotes

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears....

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears....

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears....

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears....