English Is Not The 'Official Language' Of Majority Of The World
When CE started, I thought the world spoke English and adopting it for the sake of all the communication here on CE would bring us lot of engineers. Lately, I've been researching the adoption of English all over the world as 'official language'.
Here's the map I found on Wikipedia (Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English-as-Official-Language_Map.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">File:english As Official Language Map.png</a> )
It appears that English has not been adopted as the official language in most of the world. Look at the adoption of English in Europe, South America, Africa, Russia and China.
Now, what's more surprising is that: English is no way connected to the overall development and progress of these nations. China, the dominant manufacturing hub is far from adopting English - and it's not hindered their growth. I wonder how their engineers work without English. The same goes with Europe where Germans do just fine in Engineering without English. Same story with Japan - does fine without English. I wonder why Indians force their kids into learning English as the first language. Wondering what if local languages are given preferences in education (like the Europeans, Japanese, Germans, Russians, Chinese and South Americans do); will it make a significant difference to the education?
Also, I wish to question - if English is being adopted as a language of business all over the world (that's what it's usually believed), why isn't the majority of world adopted it? Or is the adoption in progress?
Your thoughts, please?
Here's the map I found on Wikipedia (Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:English-as-Official-Language_Map.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">File:english As Official Language Map.png</a> )
It appears that English has not been adopted as the official language in most of the world. Look at the adoption of English in Europe, South America, Africa, Russia and China.
Now, what's more surprising is that: English is no way connected to the overall development and progress of these nations. China, the dominant manufacturing hub is far from adopting English - and it's not hindered their growth. I wonder how their engineers work without English. The same goes with Europe where Germans do just fine in Engineering without English. Same story with Japan - does fine without English. I wonder why Indians force their kids into learning English as the first language. Wondering what if local languages are given preferences in education (like the Europeans, Japanese, Germans, Russians, Chinese and South Americans do); will it make a significant difference to the education?
Also, I wish to question - if English is being adopted as a language of business all over the world (that's what it's usually believed), why isn't the majority of world adopted it? Or is the adoption in progress?
Your thoughts, please?
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