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

[Tooting Carmen]

I think there is needed some kind of an artificial international language for communication like Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido etc. This is my opinion and I won't change my mind.

Yeah probably.

[Teutone]

I do not say I dont care if the German language disappears.

Your Thread about language, was indirectly asking if ethnicity/race are as important as language/culture or if language/culture are more important than etnicity/race.

If Germany is inhabited by 80mio ethnic Germans not speaking any German, id prefer that over a Germany with 80mio Nigerians speaking perfect German.

Thats what any sane person would agree on.

The best scenario and default scenario is a homogenous society with a common language and culture.

[Tooting Carmen]

I do not say I dont care if the German language disappears.

Your Thread about language, was indirectly asking if ethnicity/race are as important as language/culture or if language/culture are more important than etnicity/race.

If Germany is inhabited by 80mio ethnic Germans not speaking any German, id prefer that over a Germany with 80mio Nigerians speaking perfect German.

Thats what any sane person would agree on.

The best scenario and default scenario is a homogenous society with a common language and culture.

OK, but at times I have got the impression you are quite indifferent towards the German language, and moreover want Germany to become culturally and economically even more American-like than it already is.

[Teutone]

OK, but at times I have got the impression you are quite indifferent towards the German language, and moreover want Germany to become culturally and economically even more American-like than it already is.

I am indifirrent about Germany, but not about the German language.

Compared to the racial importance of identity, the language/culture arent that important to me tho.

[Tooting Carmen]

I am indifirrent about Germany, but not about the German language.

What do you mean?

[Teutone]

What do you mean?

German is not just spoken in the Federal Republic of Germany, Germans arent just living in the FRG, German culture is not just present in the FRG.

[Tooting Carmen]

German is not just spoken in the Federal Republic of Germany, Germans arent just living in the FDR, German culture is not just present in the FDR.

So what you're saying is that Germany as a nation is a lost cause, but Germans as a people and a culture regardless of where they live in the world are not?

[Teutone]

So what you're saying is that Germany as a nation is a lost cause, but Germans as a people and a culture regardless of where they live in the world are not?

Especially in Austria,Switzerland, parts of Belgium, Lichtenstein, yes.

[Laly]

I think there is needed some kind of an artificial international language for communication like Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido etc. This is my opinion and I won't change my mind.

Languages like esperanto will never make it, according to me, because it’s artificial, it doesn’t refer to any tangible reality, it doesn’t have any soul. It's not appealing. And it seems it’s too simplistic. Using the reconstructed Indo-European language as a lingua franca, on the other hand, would be awesome.

[Mingle]

Esperanto should be the global lingua franca.