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The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo: China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse; the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic; and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.

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So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships.

And so actually it allows for an intense emotional exchange, but is serves to absorb the specificity of the words that are delivered.

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