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Because the ideal situation is to make sure no-one knows any language but their own cultural group's, ensuring that we can't communicate with each other and come to better understanding and useful dialogues? Should we also keep everyone who isn't English or American from learning English, since that's our "cultural language"? Bringing global economy to a screeching halt by only having ~400 million people knowing English, concentrated in two specific countries sounds like a great idea. What about Canada, which is a melting pot of many cultures and speaks several languages. Or Switzerland, which has ethnic Germans, French, and Italians all within its borders?
The biggest issue with these kinds ideologies is how superficial and not-at-all fleshed out they are. If it were well-thought out, with a reasonably logical philosophy that had some kind of consistency, I could at least respect it as a reasonable philosophical position to take, if a bad one. But when all these ideas and thoughts that are melded together fall apart under minimal scrutiny, it loses any sort of notion it could be a respectable philosophy.
Because the ideal situation is to make sure no-one knows any language but their own cultural group's, ensuring that we can't communicate with each other and come to better understanding and useful dialogues? Should we also keep everyone who isn't English or American from learning English, since that's our "cultural language"? Bringing global economy to a screeching halt by only having ~400 million people knowing English, concentrated in two specific countries sounds like a great idea. What about Canada, which is a melting pot of many cultures and speaks several languages. Or Switzerland, which has ethnic Germans, French, and Italians all within its borders?
The biggest issue with these kinds ideologies is how superficial and not-at-all fleshed out they are. If it were well-thought out, with a reasonably logical philosophy that had some kind of consistency, I could at least respect it as a reasonable philosophical position to take, if a bad one. But when all these ideas and thoughts that are melded together fall apart under minimal scrutiny, it loses any sort of notion it could be a respectable philosophy.
"Pro" as in professional ignoramus? How does one make money doing that? I can ignore things. I ignore things all the time!