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2. Stanley Lieberson, “Forces Affecting Language Spread: Some Basic Propositions,” in Language Spread: Studies in Diffusion and Social Change, ed. Robert L. Cooper (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982), pp. 37–62.
3. Wilfrido V. Villacorta, “The Politics of Language in the Third World: Toward Theory Building,” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 88 (1991): 33–44.
4. Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Picador, 2005).
5. Sidney Weintraub, A Marriage of Convenience: Relations between Mexico and the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), see especially Chapter 1, “Exploiting Inevitable Integration.” See also Chapter 1, note 6 of this study.