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<blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 3021207" data-attributes="member: 8396">Well, mostly because the average person is lazy to a certain degree... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; Also, I mean &quot;easy&quot; in terms of &quot;easy to effect a linguistic changeover&quot;.&nbsp; In times of abrupt changes in what the dominent language was across cultures, there usually was either a large scale event that caused a language to decline, a large organization in place to preserve a language or to impose a new one, etc... In the absense of such heavily influencing factors, the &quot;status quo&quot; will reign and slowly shift to meet the slower, more organic influences of cultural evolution.&nbsp; This is why I wouldn't predict an abrupt dropping of English in favour of another totally different language.&nbsp; That would require large scale events comparable to the Roman Empire's influence in getting Latin to be so popular &quot;a little while ago&quot;...&lt;my opinions&gt;As for The Chinese creating an influence that would push non-Mandarin speakers to speak Mandarin outside of China, perhaps you should talk to some native Chinese people.&nbsp; They're quite happy with the rest of the world not speaking their language! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Given some things I've observed of their culture, I rather suspect that they would prefer that people speak English and leave the Chinese-speaking to the Chinese.&nbsp; Of course, when you visit them, they appreciate your efforts to speak their language, but don't mistake this to mean that they want foreigners to adopt Mandarin as their native tongue.&nbsp; I strongly suspect that were several nations to do this, the average Chinese person would not be happy about it.&lt;/my opinions&gt;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiralBound, post: 3021207, member: 8396"] Well, mostly because the average person is lazy to a certain degree... :D Also, I mean "easy" in terms of "easy to effect a linguistic changeover". In times of abrupt changes in what the dominent language was across cultures, there usually was either a large scale event that caused a language to decline, a large organization in place to preserve a language or to impose a new one, etc... In the absense of such heavily influencing factors, the "status quo" will reign and slowly shift to meet the slower, more organic influences of cultural evolution. This is why I wouldn't predict an abrupt dropping of English in favour of another totally different language. That would require large scale events comparable to the Roman Empire's influence in getting Latin to be so popular "a little while ago"... <my opinions> As for The Chinese creating an influence that would push non-Mandarin speakers to speak Mandarin outside of China, perhaps you should talk to some native Chinese people. They're quite happy with the rest of the world not speaking their language! :D Given some things I've observed of their culture, I rather suspect that they would prefer that people speak English and leave the Chinese-speaking to the Chinese. Of course, when you visit them, they appreciate your efforts to speak their language, but don't mistake this to mean that they want foreigners to adopt Mandarin as their native tongue. I strongly suspect that were several nations to do this, the average Chinese person would not be happy about it. </my opinions> [/QUOTE]

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