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Banned Idiot
Who really cares if Chinese won't be as easy to learn. That's everyone elses problem that wants to do business with China. While at the same time the Chinese will be learning everyone elses' language and having the advantage. If people don't want to learn Chinese, that's their loss. You don't see the Chinese so arrogant that they expect everyone to learn their language as if it's the only thing that matters in the future. That's why China beats India. The software industry hasn't helped India beat China. It's not like they hold a monopoly of the global software industry and China has no software because Indians aren't there to write it for them. Guess what? Chinese are doing software for China and they're on the top ranks of computer programming. I don't really see the loss that Indians aren't writing software for the Chinese. That's actually a plus for China. That's something the US can only wish these days to have Americans writing software for Americans. The fact is China is way ahead of all the developing world competitors. That wouldn't be if English were so important as the activist say.
Please do not misunderstand me, what i am saying is Chinese will become more popular, true and more people will try to learn it, no one denies that, but you have to understand the reality, China and India are very well matched, have the same potential and India is growing fast, they won`t be left behind, but here is not about a competition, we are just saying that China is not the only emerging market, niether the only nation that will achieve more importance in 20 years from now.
of the 20 largest economies we found several large economies.
Russia and Brazil are growing too, these are economies that will control their respective areas, Brazil south america and Russia the former CIS countries, China is important we live in a multipolar world, this means Chinese only is important in the far east region, but english will remain important in Asia because the European languages are widely spread, in the american continent; spanish, english and portugues are the dominant languages and to a lesser extend French, in Africa, English, Arabic and French are too important.
In the middle east Arabic rules, so the peoples of these countries are not going to switch to Chinese to speak within themselves so people of europe, the americas, middle east or africa will still use english.
In the far east is different, chinese will rule no one denies it, but still english will remain very important because asians will need to do business with the non asian countries and then the english will be the most important language.
Now understand for western people alphabets are widely used and western people won`t change to ideograms, already alphabets are widely accepted so no one will switch to ideagrams, this is the real reason Japanese never became popular beyond manga lovers.
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