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So, now TikTok by Chinese company ByteDance is the new Social Media viral app, with a valuation in the billions of $s.

How many Indian tech companies have launched a popular global product?

(India has #EnglishAdvantage or #EnglishLiability?)
A list of Chinese technology unicorns in the over $10 billion range. Remember this is TECHNOLOGY. Remember all of Chinese education is in Chinese medium.

How many from India with "English Advantage"?
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Star…
Of the top 20 market cap leaders in Internet/Technology today, USA has 11 and China has 9. India has ZERO. But India is a "technology leader" due to English because we got some BPO jobs. 😏 A slave civilization aims low, is proud of "English Advantage."

marketwatch.com/story/china-ha…
Is "English medium" better for technology? Here is what Eric Schmidt, former Google Chairman has to say about how rapidly China's progress. Using Chinese.

"By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will be better than us. By 2030, they will dominate the industries of AI "
No evidence can overturn the blind faith in "English advantage."😂 Despite NO example of a major country progressing without broad-based technical education in mother tongues. English in India kills creativity, kills learning, kills broad tech adoption.
No, India does not lack entrepreneurship. It has been the most creative civilization. China is stodgy and uncreative by comparison. Almost all knowledge flow historically was from India to China. But India today is stuck in English #SlaveMind.
sankrant.org/2010/03/nation…
Yup. the "English advantage" is not to India. The advantage of India remaining an English-slave is to the US and UK—so it remains a cultural satellite slave nation which looks up to them, remains a market for their media, and provides cheap labor.
No, having a few employees work in America is no great evidence of India's "advantage"—not even a rounding error of India's population. If there were an advantage it'd show up in hundred billion dollar tech companies India would be producing at home. None.
Every scientific study shows that children learn best in their mother tongue. Surveys in India show that those studying in their mother tongue have better math & science skills than those studying in English, till they hit the glass ceiling.

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