Why "English-language privilege" is really a much greater issue than "White privilege"

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Don't be so facetious. Latin America was one of the few parts of the world not part of the British Empire, but then you have had the American Empire to contend with instead.



Hmm. You are the one who criticises mass immigration and believes that most non-white cultures - especially those of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Islamic world - are stupid and inferior. So which is it? The universal brotherhood of man, or people operating within their own (partly time-honoured) customs, cultures and languages?

What exactly do Africa and the ME got to do with a subject about the english language? I don't really get it.

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What exactly do Africa and the ME got to do with a subject about the english language? I don't really get it.

For a start, both were heavily colonised by the British and thus many countries in both regions have English as an official language. But the main point is this: you think the globalisation of English is good for promoting the universal brotherhood of man and the breakdown in barriers between people, yet at the same time you are vehemently opposed to free movement and interactions between people - at least if they involve Africans and MENAs, at any rate.

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It is nothing to do with 'easiness', but about the power and sheer numbers of Spanish-speakers globally. Spanish may not have quite the prestige and universalism of English, but nor is it just 'any other language' like Czech or Norwegian either. (No disrespect to speakers of those languages, just pointing out that Spanish is itself far more international and important than them).

It's a mix of both. If it were just about numbers then more people would learn chinese and that does not to seem the case.

For a start, both were heavily colonised by the British and thus many countries in both regions have English as an official language. But the main point is this: you think the globalisation of English is good for promoting the universal brotherhood of man and the breakdown in barriers between people, yet at the same time you are vehemently opposed to free movement and interactions between people - at least if they involve Africans and MENAs, at any rate.

LMAO there is no brotherhood of man lol I don't know where you get that from but I'll try to put it as easily as possible: Did the fact that I'm not on british soil stop this post from reaching you?

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It's a mix of both. If it were just about numbers then more people would learn chinese and that does not to seem the case.

For now, but let us wait another few years when China's economy surpasses the USA's (in absolute size, that is, not GDP per capita of course) and the country flexes its muscles even more than it does now.

LMAO there is no brotherhood of man lol I don't know where you get that from but I'll try to put it as easily as possible: Did the fact that I'm not on british soil stop this post from reaching you?

It's called technology, but I could have received your post in any language.

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It's called technology, but I could have received your post in any language.

And understand it?

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And understand it?

Google translate, DeepL...

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Google translate, DeepL...

lol yeah I'm sure they used Google translator back at the Yalta agreements, or at the UN meetings in the XX century or the airport employees nowadays... Just shows you've never interacted with anyone IRL.

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lol yeah I'm sure they used Google translator back at the Yalta agreements, or at the UN meetings in the XX century or the airport employees nowadays... Just shows you've never interacted with anyone IRL.

Dummy, I am talking about online. As for your real life examples: Yalta involved a lot of interpreters (I don't think Stalin or most of his minions spoke much English), the UN has six official languages and major airports also require a lot of interpreters.

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Dummy, I am talking about online. As for your real life examples: Yalta involved a lot of interpreters (I don't think Stalin or most of his minions spoke much English), the UN has six official languages and major airports also require a lot of interpreters.

Bingo. Guess what's the first language they are required to speak? Not korean, not italian or swahili...

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Bingo. Guess what's the first language they are required to speak? Not korean, not italian or swahili...

Yes, but they speak others as well. In any event, the specific case of Yalta would have only been English, French and Russian (the Germans were more talked about rather than to).