Hmm. Thinking of this some more, this is truly weird. No other country I've visited to has nationalism so reducible to language chauvinism.
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but language is generally how you preserve culture really in any country. It's not really a bad thing.
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but usually a 2nd language doesn't have the tinge of suspicion of unpatriotic sensibilities
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Oh, *that* must be why people hate the coders in silicon valley.
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I sometimes speak in fluent Hindi with my friends just to spite people!
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and speaking/being French for Francophones is definitely a sign of patriotism.
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True, only higher status topolect to most American English speakers is British English. How much of this is due to Hollywood/TV?
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nah, we still need translators so we can consume everything in english
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