Thread by @sankrant

Guess one East Asian country which also has this so-called "English advantage" 😏 which is competing with India for call-center jobs, but lagging behind all the Asian tigers in GDP/capita, just like India.

A summary of major countries with "English Advantage" in S/SE/E Asia.

Homework: If language is a factor, why would English-medium lead to less development.

Note: The English-100 percenters will use all other factors to "explain" this other than the issue of language.

Within India comparisons don’t help since the Indian Govt imposes English apartheid from the top. All major Courts, IITs, IIMs, AIIMS etc are English only.

So there is an “English advantage” within India due to discriminative polices but in any global metric India lags.

https://twitter.com/askteal/status/1445535421555871751

They are city-sized. Practically irrelevant examples when compared with countries of 100x population. Even so Hong Kong does not have largely English-medium and Singapore has multiple languages in education. But as I said, irrelevant.

https://twitter.com/dharma__vijaya/status/1445537483744165888

No I don’t think that is the key factor. The important factor already has numerous scientific studies to back it: brains develop best with mother tongue education. India destroys talent and brains with English-medium, calls it “advantage.”

https://twitter.com/anoceanian/status/1445537791140524035

Actually there was very little English-medium even 80 years ago. Most of this “advancement” has happened after independence.

https://twitter.com/Maiaurmeritanha/status/1445538429370912770

No, no large country is linguistically homogeneous. China has over 300 languages. Japan has many dialects. With modernization, countries standardized some dialects/languages but, unlike India, didn’t destroy their languages for a distant foreign language.

https://twitter.com/Dutt_An/status/1445545798582738948?s=20

Only in serving 4 countries. Even for that English-medium is not needed, knowledge of English is sufficient. The cost of English-medium in terms of lack of comprehension, limiting access to technology for masses, and destruction of culture is too high.

https://twitter.com/GrumpyChanakya/status/1445595381610385414?s=20

For centuries, knowledge transfer was from India to China and other countries.

Yes, if you did IQ tests of English-class in India, results are not surprising. Per my thesis, English-medium in India and Philippines causes loss of brain power.

https://twitter.com/dpinsen/status/1445619575266054152?s=20

In my own testing, documented in my book, I used non-verbal IQ tests—rural Indian children studying in their mother tongue outscored urban Indian children studying in English-medium. English was the biggest barrier for rural children, their math was great.
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India's English-medium obsession is creating linguistic cripples, who know no language well. This leads to the loss of ability to reason and prepare minds for the 21st century. English-medium education is no "advantage" but the biggest barrier to progress.

https://twitter.com/omkar649/status/1445644930777444359?s=20

Lol, China is beating India even on People Skills in Services, though practically no one studies in English-medium there. Where is the "English advantage"? India is simply cheap, with plenty of less-skilled people.

https://twitter.com/ashwinkumariyer/status/1445771121987493899?s=20

Lots of them. Switzerland has 3 languages; education is in one of the 3 based on Canton. But the better model for India is all of EU. It has the same level of diversity.

https://twitter.com/RK_Hebbar/status/1445774338855104520?s=20