Published in: Translorial: The Journal of the Northern California Translators Association, May 2010, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 10+.
How has it become acceptable for English to be treated as if it had no country or history?
Let me begin with a simple statement, one guaranteed to have any group of translators howling at each other within minutes: translators can be defined as professional (by which I mean, among other things, that they are entitled to charge money for what they do) solely and exclusively if they work from their second (or other) language into their native one.
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Even if the non-native speaker was able and accustomed to writing good idiomatic English when authoring texts, he should still refrain from translating into English.
A good example is Beppe Severgnini, who for several years wrote in English for the Economist, but whose books are all translated by Giles Watson.