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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:58PM (1 child)
Note that in that same epoch, the international language of science was German and not French.
If your chosen profession needs an university education at all, you need the language that the scientific output in that field is in. All the SJWs in the world climbing to the rooftops and screaming "DIVERSITY!!!" till hoarse, will not change that plain fact one single bit.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:11PM
That's debatable. In chemistry, maybe.
But you raise a good point: for some areas there are different, specific common tongues. For example, if you're gonna move in the world of opera you're still gonna need a command of Italian. English wraps around all those, though.
Washington DC delenda est.