Trying to fill that void, Dr. Anderson argued that nations emerged only after three beliefs were weakened: that elite languages (like Latin) offered unique access to truth about existence; that society was naturally organized around leaders who ruled through divine dispensation; and that the origins of the world and of humankind were essentially identical.
3. Elite Languages: Rome certainly doesn't have the market cornered on the use of elitist languages, but the reputation of Latin as a marker of elevated status strongly resembles the perception of High Valyrian in the series.
At the elite Foreign Language Revolution School, students warmed themselves around stoves fed by coal or wood.
Up until 1996, Japanese was very much an elite minority language which was being taught in small groups in the independent sector.
While there I also realized, once again, that a third of the world's poor still live in India because the elite English language media was outraged by new reports (some of the Hindi media did mention it in passing).
Though he was graduating from an elite English-language university, he missed this subtlety of "nations" in the course of his education.
In The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam, the headmaster of an elite English-language school in Saigon is forced to face up to what he has become.
A believer in arranged marriages, Mr. Sharma found the groom by placing a classified ad in two of Delhi's elite English-language newspapers, a common practice here.
The American University of Afghanistan, an elite English-language organisation with many foreign employees, said two of its staff had been killed, but did not release names.
Educated at elite English-language Pakistani schools, several run by nuns, she lived the life of an indulged and adored wealthy child and teenager.
They simultaneously connected with Haitian elites through language, yet believed peasants needed saving.
