• nutandcross@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How many people in your rural Asian town are talking to strangers in English on the Internet about how detrimental the English-speaking Internet is?

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      1 year ago

      I’m sorry, I’m not sure if it’s my lack of sleep or a reading comprehension issue on my end but I don’t understand your question. Though to answer it literally, English is so influential in my country that our schools tend to speak, read, and write in English more often than our native languages. If you speak English well, it’s likely that you’ll be regarded as a high-class individual by a good chunk of people here.

      Unfortunately, that has threatened our own identity - to our people’s cultural detriment and annoyance - as you’ll probably see via English public discourse on American social media interwebs… which is why I’m saying, hey, why don’t we stop paying attention to what the US is doing every now and then? I mean, how’s Ukraine been really? What’s happening with their EU membership? Maybe if the US wasn’t always on the world stage they can actually participate more authentically and we can stop defaulting to making fun of kids dying in schools as a counterpoint, you know? It’s messed up wherever it happens.