China and Russia are both large diverse countries where different people speak different languages …… and the central government strongly encourages a common one. I wager you’re wrong about them
Yeah but theyre all marginalized and only people who grew up with it speak it. Theres a difference between learning a language youre not related to in any capacity just because its culturally relevant or something and learning a language because youre born with it. There are extremely few second language nganasan, ket, komi, erzya, etc speakers who arent also part of the ethnic group. Thats why people learning languages like cree, navajo, nuxalk, etc as second languages as white americans just because they can is such a beautiful thing. Youre ancestors have taken so much from them but youre trying to make it right. Point is, the vast majority of white, orthodox russians only speak russian and maybe english.
China and Russia are both large diverse countries where different people speak different languages …… and the central government strongly encourages a common one. I wager you’re wrong about them
Yeah but theyre all marginalized and only people who grew up with it speak it. Theres a difference between learning a language youre not related to in any capacity just because its culturally relevant or something and learning a language because youre born with it. There are extremely few second language nganasan, ket, komi, erzya, etc speakers who arent also part of the ethnic group. Thats why people learning languages like cree, navajo, nuxalk, etc as second languages as white americans just because they can is such a beautiful thing. Youre ancestors have taken so much from them but youre trying to make it right. Point is, the vast majority of white, orthodox russians only speak russian and maybe english.
Ironically, America is also much more linguistically rich than that person who doesn’t live here is assuming.