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Sopheak Chea's List: English is an international language Evidence
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Oct 09, 09
The British Economic Predominance was the main reason why English is an international language. Moreover, the strong political and military predominance of the US after WWII resulted in the usage of English as a global language.
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As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the British economic predominance in the 19th century paved the way for a colonialism of large geographical reach that spread the English language in the world.
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More importantly, the strong political and military predominance of the U.S. after World War II paved the way for a substantial economic and cultural influence that displaced French from the sphere of diplomacy and fixed English as the standard for international communication.
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According to research by the British Council, "English has official* or special status in at least seventy-five countries with a total population of over two billion.
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