Comment by archon1410
6 days ago
It is not "supremacist" to believe that depriving hundreds of millions of people from higher education in their native language is deeply unjust. This reflection was prompted by a comment on why Indian languages are not represented in international competitions, which was prompted by a comment on the competition being available in many languages.
Discussions online have a tendency to go off into tangents like this. It's regrettable that this is such a contentious topic.
> self-loathing elites in India
Your disdain for English-speaking Indian elites (pejoratively referred to as ‘Macaulayites’ by Modi’s supporters) is quite telling. That said, as I mentioned earlier, this kind of discourse doesn’t belong here.
My disdain is for the fact that hundreds of millions of Indians cannot access higher education in their native language, and instead of simply learning a foreign language as a subject like the rest of world, they have the bear the burden[1] of learning things in a foreign language which they have to simultaneously learn. I have disdain for the people responsible for this mess. I do not have any disdain for any language-speaking class, specially not one which I might be part of.
[1]https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/4/2168
Much more efficient for us to all speak the same language. Trying to create fragmentation is inefficient.
You should take that up with the IMO then, or all of European Union. They provide services in ~two dozen languages.
Sure, but why worsen the situation by using more languages?
Human culture should not be particularly concerned with efficiency