Re: travel

It has kind of perplexed me for a long time why young generations of Europeans would want to learn English. I frankly don't see any real point in it, and neither have former generations of Europeans. And its bullshit to rationalize it by claiming that its for global business reasons. The vast majority of Europeans will simply not be making business deals globally and their every day interactions will be localized, so therefore learning English is really nothing but a frivolity. Besides, if pure economics was the reason then they would choose Chinese instead as that is wider spoken language globally than English. So it suggests to me that the young generations of European have become sycophantic to Anglo-American culture, and want to be part of it and intensely interact with it . I accept this is not always the case though, I can't accuse every single young European of that, as I am aware that English is force-fed in schools in some European countries. (Does anyone know what European countries English is still not compulsory in schools?. I think it's force-fed in Germany and France right?). I do remember an incident a few years back in the French parliament when younger ministers started getting into the habit of speaking in English and refused to speak in French. This wasn't because English guests were present. NO, it's because they claimed it was all about being "modern", so Jacques Chirac stormed out in a rage. I completely empathized with the man. Such sycophancy to the Anglosphere is utterly despicable.