Lina from the Beyond Blond Team reflects;
Did you know that as many as 91 countries are represented in Los Angeles? At least in terms of foreign consulates there are 59 career consulates and 32 honorary consulates. (The term "career" means with paid staff and officers posted in L.A from the country's capital.) Most of the foreign consulates work with consular and trade/cultural related affairs and the daily work and problems you need to solve are quite similar no matter which country you represent.
After work last night I went to a networking mixer, organized by our US colleagues, with attending representatives from the UK, Mexico, Canada, Azerbadjan, Honduras, Australia, Turkey and many more. I ended up on a chair beside Costa Rica. It was a reminder of how extremely international Los Angeles is. According to statistics, more than 55% of the population in LA has other languages than English as mother tongue. However, noone can tell how many would mark "Swedish", if being asked about preferred language. In other words, what we would like to know is...:
Hur många i LA skulle förstå om vi skrev det här på svenska?
Friday, April 18, 2008
Sweden and Swedish - One out of... 91?
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Mer än Ni tror!
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