<< Are you sure about that? France "once was" a cultural superpower, but much of its cultural power today in linked to the past, in more of a nostalgic way. The other month I even read a TIME magazine article titled - France: In search of past glories. Note the word "past".
The US has the most influencial culture worldwide today by far and is the cultural superpower, not France. Only snooty, francophiles think otherwise. >>
Yes, I'm so sure about that. US is good only in producing movies but when it comes to art, literature, fashion, and things that have something to do with culture US is way below. It's values is criticized so much all over the world. Sorry!
<< And don't get me wrong Guest. I don't think French is unimportant or that it is in danger. Only that I think some give it too much importance and prestige given the current situation with English and other large growing regional langauges. >>
No it's not and you're the only one who says that.
<< Sorry but it is doubtful that French will displace English in those Anglophone African coutries you listed. Maybe it will make some inroads as you say, but seriously, what would a developing country have to gain by replacing English with French??? Nothing. English is the dominate international language so they would be better off with English. >>
Look at ex-brit colonies in Africa, it has the lowest literacy rate in the continent. Now don't insist Zimbabwe because it used to have large numbers of british settlers. Therefore native africans benefited from what was done there for the whites.
South Africa is somewhat developed because of the Afrikaners. So where talking about here african countries populated and run by africans.
In case you didn't know that Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are striving to make Swahili as their official language to replace English while in Francophone Africa no such movement is being done because the French care so mush about the educational needs of its people. In Egypt French is competing neck to neck ith English. In Nigeria, French is becoming more and more widespread where French is require in secondary schoos and it even has a French speaking village called Badagry to help students in French studies. Ghana too has made French mandatory in its HS curricula.
The US has the most influencial culture worldwide today by far and is the cultural superpower, not France. Only snooty, francophiles think otherwise. >>
Yes, I'm so sure about that. US is good only in producing movies but when it comes to art, literature, fashion, and things that have something to do with culture US is way below. It's values is criticized so much all over the world. Sorry!
<< And don't get me wrong Guest. I don't think French is unimportant or that it is in danger. Only that I think some give it too much importance and prestige given the current situation with English and other large growing regional langauges. >>
No it's not and you're the only one who says that.
<< Sorry but it is doubtful that French will displace English in those Anglophone African coutries you listed. Maybe it will make some inroads as you say, but seriously, what would a developing country have to gain by replacing English with French??? Nothing. English is the dominate international language so they would be better off with English. >>
Look at ex-brit colonies in Africa, it has the lowest literacy rate in the continent. Now don't insist Zimbabwe because it used to have large numbers of british settlers. Therefore native africans benefited from what was done there for the whites.
South Africa is somewhat developed because of the Afrikaners. So where talking about here african countries populated and run by africans.
In case you didn't know that Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are striving to make Swahili as their official language to replace English while in Francophone Africa no such movement is being done because the French care so mush about the educational needs of its people. In Egypt French is competing neck to neck ith English. In Nigeria, French is becoming more and more widespread where French is require in secondary schoos and it even has a French speaking village called Badagry to help students in French studies. Ghana too has made French mandatory in its HS curricula.