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archon1410 | 7 months 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.

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tmule|7 months ago

> 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.

archon1410|7 months ago

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

sealeck|7 months ago

Much more efficient for us to all speak the same language. Trying to create fragmentation is inefficient.

archon1410|7 months ago

You should take that up with the IMO then, or all of European Union. They provide services in ~two dozen languages.

queenkjuul|7 months ago

Human culture should not be particularly concerned with efficiency