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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @09:53AM (1 child)
More rightist bullshit, but let's let them flatuate, while we ram a red-hot iron rod up their anus, and pour molten gold into their mouth. Good enough for Crassus [wikipedia.org], good enough for the alt-right. (And, as usual, it was all Sulla's fault.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @01:12PM
The decline of Blue cities, universities and the cancerous, anti-western and anti-humanist theology they preach. Come on Ari, you love to see it!