The attempt to globalize English is rapidly growing, in many countries English is being adopted into their language. Unfortunately because of this happening throughout the world, many people and countries will eventually become "Americanized" and they will begin to lose they culture and language. Americans want everyone else to learn english, but do they take the time to learn other languages. This will only make people more ignorant towards other languages. Their language, literature, and ethnic personality would be in danger of being lost. We can already see it happening in all types of cultures. Lets take China for example, they come to this country and the first thing they have to do is learn the English language to communicate with others, same with middle eastern's even though it seems as if they learn some English back in their country. English being the semi-universal language will affect many countries that only know their language and no more than that. It's important that they learn the English language but it's also vital that, us as Americans open ourselves to other languages, other cultures and not only expect for these people to learn our language but us not learn theirs.
English is the dominant language throughout the internet. Globalization is influencing the evolution of English because it's reaching places, that were never thought of, it's going from natives to japanese people to Indians. India has a billion people of population and a little over ten percent of the population are english speakers. That should say a lot about the country, it's second place after the United States. The evolution of English is changing many places. Not only in the language but to make business it has become quite important to know English because America makes business with all these non-english speaking countries. The evolution is grand and it is making some vast differences throughout the world.
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