[Foundation-l] Edits by project and country of origin

[Ray Saintonge]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

>Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>When a person from India looking at Australian edits in other languages 
>>than English presumes that we are talking about other European languages 
>>this suggests that the influence of the Raj is still alive and well, and 
>>that the educated people of India have bought into the idea that their 
>>own native languages are somehow inferior.
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>I would suggest that it's due to the caste system; the educated rich see
>the native languages as being used by the lower castes and don't want
>anything to do with them?
>
This is one plausible explanation.  So too is the idea that it is 
important to have excellent English to get ahead in the world.  But 
where will fluent Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati or even Hindi get you?

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