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The Privileged and Entitled Language

    The English language is out for world domination. There's absolutely no denying the fact that English has slowly wedged itself into global conversations by means of communication, value, and ease.  Two videos, "The Expansion of English in China" and "Global English Usage in the European Union," demonstrate the costly effect English has in the world.  Communication From the time we are babbling babies to know-it-all teenagers to full-grown adults, we learn how to communicate through forms of speech, listening, writing, reading, and understanding social cues from those around us. Language plays an important role in our development along with what we learn to attribute to society. To understand and comprehend what our words mean to convey those words in the accurate meaning for the response we are looking for surrounds our daily lives.  English has become crucial in order for communication because, in its eyes, it is number one.  The Chinese people did not...

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