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[ENGLISH] A Note on Translated Texts

Over the past few years, there has been a rise in the translation of texts to the English Language. This boom in texts translated from foreign languages gives us a heads up on the slowly globalising world as many cultures start to open up to different cultures and societies. Translated pieces of writing have given us a deeper insight and appreciation to a specific culture that a certain text possesses yet there are still some benefits and drawbacks when we are looking at the translated texts on a deeper level as translations can act as a double edge sword. Given that many texts have been translated from various cultures and communities to English and the Anglophone community, the thoughts and ideas of such cultures and communities have been presented to a greater forum thus providing the Anglophone community with more complex ideas that do not exist in the Anglophone society. The cultural and communal ideas of a specific culture or community have always been reflected in their unique