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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the intelligence!=wisdom dept.

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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.


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:56PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:56PM (#1035045) Journal

    First, Mandarin is not even the lingua franca of China. Officially it is, and is branded as "common speech" (普通话), but on the ground people outside the northeast tend to speak their own dialects, be it Cantonese, Shanghainese, Fukienese, or what-have-you.

    Kinda why I used the loose term "East Asian" instead of "Mandarin" or Chinese" specifically

    Japan and China hate each other

    Heh, more than we'll ever know...

    But you're right. Asia didn't expand globally like the Brits did, but what the Brits did through war, China, or Asia in general, might accomplish with business.

    A country that makes the victim pay for his own execution is bound to be very successful /s

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..