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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @11:11AM (1 child)
By that logic the whole world should listen to only yacht rock music, drive Toyota's, use Microsoft Windows OS, and eat a strictly vegetarian diet so we're all on the exact same page. I thought the new zeitgeist was all about diversity these days (e.g. I identify as a Klingon language speaker)?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @06:41PM
It's only racial/sexual/other identity related diversity that matters, because everyone's equal, but somehow race and sexual identity makes a difference in matters that have nothing to do with race or sex. Or so the neo-Bolshevik Jews and their useful idiots say.