English: A Friend or Foe?

Today, English is the language of international law, international politics, business and diplomacy. Everyday, more second language disappears, English becomes more general and global. The scholars are discussing how global globalization and bilingualism around the world affects other languages ​​and cultures. Most of my friends believe bilingualism and English globalization will improve people's lives around the world, but this situation will only lead to competition and will lead to survival of the fittest.

Instinctively, we divide humans into friends and friends - friends, we are doing moral cooperation with them; enemies, we have competitors. But this department is constantly changing; at one point hates his commercial competitors, and on the other hand he suddenly starts to look at him as a brother when they are threatened by socialism or external enemies . When we exceed the family limit, it always provides a cohesive external enemy. When we are safe, we can hate our neighbors, but in case of danger, we must love him.

Friends and enemy identity actors can pose a threat, so we need to judge whether each actor is more friends or more enemies. The extent of the threat may not be of interest from friends, ranges of enemies, intimate friends, occasional friends, partners and neighbors, partners, allies, neutral, but competitors, enemies, enemies, and ultimate To be honest it is evil. The game looks like a phone. When a message (information or story) from one party to another party is passed among many parties, each party uses its own word to express the meaning of the message and the message tends to be destroyed Yes. Since different information is interpreted, new information is deliberately or unintentionally generated, the whole information is represented in different ways, so after a few people the information may not be very similar to the original information There is sex.

We often see relationships in extreme ways: Is someone a friend or an enemy? But the new book by Mr. Wharton Professor Maurice Schweitzer and Adam Gallinsky of Columbia Business School's "Friends and Enemies" shows that most relations are much more complicated: they involve cooperation and competition . Knowledge @ Wharton: Morris and Adam, the important insight of this book you write is that we are constantly competing and cooperating in the workplace and at home - usually at the same time. You also pointed out that we often miss this mark. Why is this?