| Former colonies (EqG maybe less than others) often face the problem that the borders were drawn by the colonial powers who didn't give a flying procreation about ethnicities of the people living there, which often leads to completely different peoples with different languages living in the same country. This often means that the colonial language is the only one everybody speaks. Think what would have happened if some country outside of Europe colonized Northwestern Europe. Then everybody must learn say Xhosa, thanks to the overlords, but normally they would still speak Dutch, German, English, Danish, Norwegian, French, ... And after that's the case for a generation or two, it's no use to artificially change it to some indigenous one - and which one should it be anyway? |
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