Industry favours Americans!

[ElRhodeo]

goddog said:

at present being the largest market where most luxury goods are sold this hurts alot of places, the EU is growing and that can help soften the blow, but to really help keep goods uber cheap and see the eu as a unified market it needs a dominent language. region specific production hurts bottom line and rasis prices for all

as much as multiculturalism is nice, and certinaly should be remebered and taught, it would help a world economy if say 3-5 languages became dominent and the others went away,   chinese, english, german, japanese, hindi. no particular order to them. if more were needed 2 at most, spanish, and arabic due to the perdomince of both occering in south and centeral america and africa 

 

What an awful, awful idea. So you'd rather have a perfectly globalized world where in every country, people speak the same language, consume the same goods, eat the same food - just to lower some prices? What a nightmare. No offense, but you never really travelled a lot, did you? Why on earth should the Belgians speak German instead of their own language? Do you have any idea of what Africa really is? Which one of your chosen languages should they adopt, Hindi? Japanese?

Getting even more offtopic:

I hate it when I visit a new City, just to find the same stores and the same restaurants as in my hometown. Twenty years ago, shopping in Hamburg was different from shopping in Munich. Today? Chain stores everywhere, Starbucks, flagship stores, McDonalds... I hate it.

Multiculturalism is not something that needs to be overcome, it's essential.

Sorry for the rant. I guess you hit a sensitive spot.