Why do you treat English as "more equal than other languages"? Half our imports are from Germany, half our exports go to Germany, Germans are the largest ethnicity of immigrants in this country.
Sure, English is supported by the big multinational corporations, but so are lots of other things we don't like to embrace.
How would posting things in English help immigrants integrate? They will remain "tourists" until they understand Dutch - including many dozens of words and expressions for which English doesn't have an equivalent.
It's not a matter of "keeping certain ethnicities in the dark". It's about not playing along with capitalist globalisation, and not discriminating foreigners because of native language. If we want international equality, we can't promote an ethnic/national language to world standard. We need a worldlanguage that's nobody's only language, and is easier to learn than any of the national ones. Until something even better comes along, I support Esperanto for that role. It's not perfect, but it has been in use for almost 130 years now, and can be adapted by ordinary users
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Why do you treat English as "more equal than other languages"? Half our imports are from Germany, half our exports go to Germany, Germans are the largest ethnicity of immigrants in this country.
Sure, English is supported by the big multinational corporations, but so are lots of other things we don't like to embrace.
How would posting things in English help immigrants integrate? They will remain "tourists" until they understand Dutch - including many dozens of words and expressions for which English doesn't have an equivalent.
It's not a matter of "keeping certain ethnicities in the dark". It's about not playing along with capitalist globalisation, and not discriminating foreigners because of native language. If we want international equality, we can't promote an ethnic/national language to world standard. We need a worldlanguage that's nobody's only language, and is easier to learn than any of the national ones. Until something even better comes along, I support Esperanto for that role. It's not perfect, but it has been in use for almost 130 years now, and can be adapted by ordinary users