esperanto_story1-8, Exercise 2: "Esperanto has no culture"

Model answer (check the details):

For the claim: the readership is small; most works are known only inside the community; few are read by outsiders; there is no country whose daily life the language belongs to.

Against the claim: an annual world congress, a publishing trade with original novels and poetry, recognised poets such as William Auld and Marjorie Boulton, bands and festivals, radio and podcasts, a large Wikipedia and reference works.

Verdict: "Esperanto has a culture of its own, small in scale and mostly shared among its speakers."