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In the teaching of English as the language of immigration, global employment, and global transactions, culture has taken on a radically different flavor than in traditional language teaching. Culture, in the territorial, hierarchical sense given by the modernist conception of the term, has been seen as a handicap to individual mobility, entrepreneurship, and change associated with the mastery of English as a second or international language. Culture in the teaching of English has therefore been resignified as a post-modernist concept referring to Discourse, identity and power. This view of culture has influenced the teaching of other languages as well.