Cultural Weightlessness in Language

I respond to a good video made by polyglot Steve Kaufman here:

http://thelinguist.blogs.com/how_to_learn_english_and/2009/04/cultural-weightlessness-and-language-learning.html#comments

I'm the first comment.

It involves something Mr. Kaufman calls Cultural Weightlessness in learning languages and he touches on other subjects involving assimilation with a culture and how some cultures resist assimilation. Very good video, it isn't only about language learning.