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Lost in translation: the dead end of dividing the world on identity lines | Kenan Malik

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Race should not be a factor in who turns the poetry of Amanda Gorman into Dutch

In 1768, the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder paid a visit to the French city of Nantes. “I am getting to know the French language and ways of thinking,” he wrote to fellow-philosopher Johann Georg Hamann. But, “the closer my acquaintance with them is, the greater my sense of alienation becomes”.

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