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After getting the middle finger from the UK they are slowly then quickly excising the English out of their lives.
by yardie 5y ago
After getting the middle finger from the UK they are slowly then quickly excising the English out of their lives.
- adventured 5y agoFrance is sitting on an economy that hasn't net expanded in inflation-adjusted terms since approximately 1980. Forty years of stagnation, you'd think a nation would consider what it's doing wrong. Their position and importance in the world has collapsed over the past half century - and that's only going to get worse yet. It's pretty clear how that middle finger exercise is going to turn out for France. The British at least, for their part, are riding the global language (which gives them all manner of advantages, not least of which is cultural export which helps to maintain relevance). (and no, Mandarin does not have a future in that language role, China's population will rapidly decline and Mandarin is extremely difficult to learn, while simultaneously the global population that speaks English will continue to expand; in 50 years more people will be speaking English and fewer people will be speaking Mandarin)
- kmlx 5y ago> the global population that speaks English will continue to expand; in 50 years more people will be speaking English and fewer people will be speaking Mandarin interesting. any sources where i could find out more?