• KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    18 days ago

    Hot take: countries that don’t speak English natively where they teach children English in school below the age of ten are too Americanized/westernized.

    Same goes for countries where they have to have the English translations on all road signs and information signs

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      20·
      18 days ago

      i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized. Tho at this point, mandarin should be part of the curriculum too, i would say it’s far more important than english at this point since for really 99% of industries, if you want to acquire machinery or some input, you’re going to need to get a chinese supplier.

      • Arachno_Stalinist@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        17 days ago

        i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized.

        Here in the Philippines, it’s both😭

        When I was in Elementary, our schools had an English-Only Policy where speaking our national language (Tagalog) outside of Filipino classes was penalized. We also have an entire market for overseas work (OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers)