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Interdependence
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The Importance of ESL
Isaac: I grew up in the Middle East and I can imagine like, I mean, now with a lot of the commerce happening in the forest. But what I experienced growing up was a precursor to that where you would get direct to VHS when I was a kid, the trashiest movies, but you could watch them exactly in any language. It's kind of third world, Isaac. And that was true of my cinema experience when I was living in India in the early 1970s. You can see the Indians public liked American films that had, well, Bollywood has dancing, music, spectacle, costumes and some fights.
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