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Let's face it, the British empire was extremely powerful, conquering country after country. The fact that English is the world language today, even so I as a Chinese man is typing in it, is a testimony to this fact.
But let's approach this from another angle.
What if I told you, that there is another language that may become more influential overtime?
Chinese language.
The thing that partially saves my language from being internationalized is the difficultly and the unconventional writing system. Foreign brains are not wired for the writing system, instead being optimized for alphabet writing skills.
Now, let's go back to the British.
English being a globalized language means the Anglos will have no language to retreat back to call their own. Everyone now understands them, and they cannot speak of anything slightly controversial without others listening onto them and understanding them full on 100%. On a linguistic level there is not a place that they can call a redoubt.
Can you imagine the loss of free speech (yes, even in Chinese context) if everyone in the world understood Chinese? Frankly, with the AI one-click translators in Chinese social media, I think this is likely to become a reality as CCP promotes "people to people exchanges".
I see it that, in the increasingly globalized world, the Chinese language serves as one of the strongest, and one of the last bastion of defense against immigration and social integration , de-incentizing foreigners to come.
What do you think?
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