In praise of Colinisation. Without Britain's empire, India would not be having the success in software that they are: <"The most important difference," said Shen Weiping, vice president of Jiaotong University in Shanghai, "is that professors in India teach computers in English and professors in China teach computers in Chinese."
Until now, English has been taught as a subject in China, but other subjects have not been taught in English, limiting practical use of the classroom learning. English skills are critical for the Chinese if they intend to build the customer relationships needed to increase exports to English-speaking countries.>
Young people in India are NOT impressed by the stupid moves to Hinduize India and ditch English in pursuit of National Pride [like the French who try to ban English contamination of their sacred language - they ban words like restaurant, cafe ... hahaah.. little joke there]. They find on looking for a job that the number one requirement for a serious job with serious pay is ability in English or American or Internationalese.
Those still fighting a rearguard action against residual icons of Britannia, such as English, are ruining the opportunities. Young people will of course ignore them where possible.
Meanwhile, China will be figuring out that to get the money, you have to speak the language of the people with the money. Hence, Japanese and English are big languages. Russian and French are on the way out. Chinese will be big time soon enough.
Anyway, the point was going to be, imagine when 2 billion Indians and Chinese are writing umpty trillion lines of code for It. Globalisation and post-cusp expansion are going to be getting a very big acceleration as they come onstream. I hope they don't put any sneaky bits of code into It which might be detrimental to my nausages.
<P.S. Here, them commies are learning from the Indians, globalization style … so that they have more money to pay for your CDMAs ‘planet-ization’ fashion …
nytimes.com
“Chinese Race to Supplant India in Software
January 5, 2002”>
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