Re:Phishing with Unicode Domains
by matt4077 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:30AM
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Yes, knowing English is great. Everyone should learn English.
But declaring English the lingua franca means that people from other cultures will be at a perennial disadvantage vis-a-vis native speakers, or that their native language would be neglected.
There's an obvious benefit we get from everyone speaking English, but there's also a non-obvious cost to the homogenisation of cultures. Already, there are languages dying (and dead), and with every languages dies a potentially different and meaningful way to look at the world.
In any case, I'd leave such decisions to those actually affected by them. People tend to react in surprising ways to other cultures telling them what they're worth or not (c. f. "Balkanisation")
But declaring English the lingua franca means that people from other cultures will be at a perennial disadvantage vis-a-vis native speakers, or that their native language would be neglected.
There's an obvious benefit we get from everyone speaking English, but there's also a non-obvious cost to the homogenisation of cultures. Already, there are languages dying (and dead), and with every languages dies a potentially different and meaningful way to look at the world.
In any case, I'd leave such decisions to those actually affected by them. People tend to react in surprising ways to other cultures telling them what they're worth or not (c. f. "Balkanisation")