The Spread of English All Over the World Is Disadvantageous

With the process of globalization, English becomes more and more popular. Faced with the question whether the spread of English all over the world is advantageous or not, there is no consensus of opinion among people. As to me, I will say it is disadvantageous without any hesitation. A number of factors could account for this phenomenon.

First and foremost, English can divide the society into many classes, which widen the gap between the rich and the poor. We can take China as an example, recently, English becomes more and more popular, and lots of companies regard English as a boundary in interviews. In China, if there are two people who own same education seeking for the same job, under this circumstance, the one who masters English better will get more chance and this situation also adapt for many other countries.

Secondly, English is endangering linguistic diversity and causing culture disaster. The linguists says that there are almost seventy thousand kinds of languages in the world, and half of them on the brink of extinction, what’s worse, every two weeks there is one language disappearing, which is two times as many as mammals, and four times as many as birds. There is no doubt that English accelerates this course. Besides, language is the carrier of culture, that is to say, the variety of culture is also in a dangerous state with the extinction of languages. To some degree, we can also gain information from many countries’ behavior. In 2000, Poland’s government makes a