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The love of all things English begins at a young age in non-English-speaking countries, promoted by pop culture, Hollywood movies, fast-food brands, sports events and TV shows.
Later, with English skills and international education qualifications from high school, the path is laid to prestigious international universities in the English-speaking world and employment opportunities at home and abroad.
But those opportunities aren't distributed equally across socioeconomic groups. Global education in English is largely reserved for middle-class students.
This is creating a divide between those inside the global English proficiency ecosystem and those relegated to parts of the education system where such opportunities don't exist.
[...] It's unfortunate so many schools view an English-speaking model as the gold standard and overlook their own local or regional wisdoms. We need to remember that encouraging young people to join a privileged English-speaking élite educated in foreign universities is only one of many possible educational options.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:34AM (3 children)
As a German, I can say that "gloating" comes rather close to "Schadenfreude". For "verschlimmbessern", there is the Chinese phrase of "drawing legs on a snake", which is pretty expressive in English too.
(Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:13PM (1 child)
Gloating is a perfectly cromulent word too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @08:31PM
Covfefe yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2020, @04:25AM
Not to mention that schadenfreude is effectively an English word at this point, you use the word and people are likely to know what it means.