Language and Literature Blogpost #12

Linguistic Imperialism refers to the transfer of a dominant language to other people. Linguistic imperialism can have major impacts on people's lives, identities, and their respective communities. English is Earth's most dominant language and there's no doubt that English linguistic imperialism brings bad effects to the indigenous language and original culture of countries whose first language is not English (Every country except the U.S and the U.K.)

Firstly English linguistic imperialism can lead to language loss or in other words, the indigenous language of a country is/will no longer be used by their own people, for example the Middle East and China are two great examples. Language loss is just the first part of the huge chain-reaction that will eventually lead to the loss of people's culture since language is the key to culture and is also considered to be the main aspect which runs a culture, after that we may even lose our identities, without language and culture a human is just an ordinary person without proper cultural backgrounds speaking a foreign language, and to add insult to injury, in the modern era there is no patriotism which drives someone to be supportive and loyal to one's country; therefore this will just speed up the process of language and cultural loss.