Not the education system. Languages have different stuff to articulate, that we learn as childs as we learn the language. If you later learn a different language that has phonemes that doesn't exist in your primary language, than you have difficulties to pronounce it. It sounds funny if english-speaking people try to pronounce the german sounds for ÄÖÜ. So I could say your education system fails at learning you the german language.

mmmmm not sure what 2 make of this thread?

The vast majority of internet users these days speak Chinese. Also it is a question of the community of the website. I use many internet-sites, that have a german-speaking community.

America was the center of globalization in the 20th century. Now that moves to China and Korea, and probably in future more and more also to India. But that is not the reason for the Lingua franca of these days (the term shows, that french at some time in history was a dominating language). The reason has to do more with cultural export. Movies from America and english spoken music from Great Britain are the main reasons why english is the common language at these days. If China, Korea and India will export as much culture and if that influence the spoken language will be seen.

English is not racist those admins that banned you are.

My native language is Spanish and i reply to tons of people on youtube in Spanish and nobody gives a damn what i'm saying.

One global language, and it should be English? Good luck telling that to the Mandarin speakers.

There was already a worldwide language called Esparanza, and it failed completely. Tolkien's Elvish language was more successful.

English by default gets chosen as the universal language because A. Thanks to the British Empire, a fair majority of countries speak the language natively, and B. Since the internet was developed mostly as a joint effort between The UK and the US, it gained universal language status on the internet. Take a look at Unicode's predecessor; ASCII. It only dealt with the latin alphabet.

It all comes down to appeal. If the majority of the forum speak English natively, then it's probably a good idea to engage said forum with English, the same way that we shouldn't go into a majority French forum and expect English posts to be recognised.

I swear some people loving calling something racist for the sake of it, even if it isn't. That's like saying every culture is racist because you have to except a different culture, like the Chinese culture if you go to China for instance. People only learn English as a second language, as it makes things easier and they can make way more money that way. I personally don't see how a single worldwide language would work, how would you get everyone to learn it and make sure it's the same everywhere. Like any other language, it's bound to vary by region or even city. Just look at how different English is between England, Australia and the United States or Spanish between Spain and Mexico. It's not the same. If a language goes, the culture will go with it

Political correctness on steroids. A language is deemed racist as a result of its widespread use, what am I going to read next.

Wtf? English for a start is a language that came together from other languages, you may as well be saying that latin, french and several others are racist as well. Most Countries speak it because it was spread around by the British Empire and the most dominant Country for the modern era has been the US, when Napoleon was about a lot of the world spoke French because they were the dominant force for a while so were the country most had to do dealings with.