Billy Ayers, an American social activist, said “Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it”. The history and discoveries have proofed that since the very ancient time, people have been enthusiastic about making new discoveries by travelling far away from their homeland. People from different regions gathered to do economic trades, ideas exchanges, and also cultural swaps. Furthermore, this huge historical phenomenon continues until today. Mufwene (2010) stated that globalization has facilitated the exchange of a larger volume of information and goods. It has also led to enhance the mutual cultural interaction across the national and regional boundaries, which convince the experts to think that the world has been homogenized, in this context cultural aspects.
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English develops a special role that is recognized in a lot of countries, and in fields such as politics, businesses, tourism, and many others. Now, English is an official language of 54 countries. Nevertheless, its massive role could ruin other national languages. A statistic data from statistata.com proved that around 80% of English speakers are not native speakers. It confirms that English is learned by many other countries. A survey from Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore (2015) proved that 36.9% of the residences over 5 years speak English. Back in 2010, it was only 32.3%. Meanwhile, the population divisions of Singapore are Chinese 74.3%, Malays 13.3%, Indians 9.1%, and others 2.3% (DSMTIRS, 2015). The usage of English has been rooted in people’s mind, as in Indonesia, teenagers say the famous “I love you” phrase more often than its translation in Bahasa Indonesia. English words often adopted to be official words in some countries. In Japan, katakana is used in writing the adopted words, which mostly
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English develops a special role that is recognized in a lot of countries, and in fields such as politics, businesses, tourism, and many others. Now, English is an official language of 54 countries. Nevertheless, its massive role could ruin other national languages. A statistic data from statistata.com proved that around 80% of English speakers are not native speakers. It confirms that English is learned by many other countries. A survey from Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore (2015) proved that 36.9% of the residences over 5 years speak English. Back in 2010, it was only 32.3%. Meanwhile, the population divisions of Singapore are Chinese 74.3%, Malays 13.3%, Indians 9.1%, and others 2.3% (DSMTIRS, 2015). The usage of English has been rooted in people’s mind, as in Indonesia, teenagers say the famous “I love you” phrase more often than its translation in Bahasa Indonesia. English words often adopted to be official words in some countries. In Japan, katakana is used in writing the adopted words, which mostly