A Persian insult, an Inuit dialect, and Urdu directions summary

BY PATRICK COX ⋅ AUGUST 20, 2010

            The first section of the dialogue was about Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  He spoke at an event and used crude words to describe a group of people coming from America.  He said “the bogeyman snatched the boob” which shocked the public of Iran and the world.  Many people were upset by the fact that their president was saying that in public.  Later after this mistake, the Iran president said he was “trying to be a man of the people”.

            The second section was about a small Inuit group of people in Greenland.  They live by the large piece of the glacier that just broke off.  This small community lives the furthest north than any other tribe around the world today.  They had one illegal threat against the United States when the U.S decided to build an air base where they were living, so Inuit’s had to move elsewhere. 

            Steven Lenord is going to live with this tribe for a year and is going to record his discoveries on them.  He said that not a lot of information is recorded about these people.  They have a very different dialect, and there is not much information recorded on their language.  These people hunt in kayaks, hunt with harpoons, and travel by dog-sled.  They hunt for sea mammals.  They are very old fashioned.  Only about 1,000 people live there, and it is one of the few hunter-gatherer communities left in Greenland.  Lenord said he is going to publish his discoveries for the people of the community, so they can see what their lifestyle is like in the view of an outsider.  The life of these people might be gone within the next 10-15 years because they might have to move further south.

            The final section was on foreign language films in the United States.  Foreign language films are not in stores as much as they used to be in the U.S.  The box offices in the U.S are selling fewer copies of these films because the public has a low demand for the movies.  Some people believe this is because fewer people are focused on foreign languages anymore.  Critics are very important to these foreign films because if the film gets good ratings, more theatres will want to have it showing at their theater, and more people will want to see it.  These foreign films have to be good, or else they won’t sell to the American public.