If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.
China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world Russia is Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that because I was involved in reading Chinese history or languages or whatever.
People who share the same language French or Chinese or whatever have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same as they come from the same throats and lungs.
In China I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language you will be assimilated but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.