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English is not the obstacle; the Latin alphabet is.

There is a much higher chance that Western countries could move from English to another Latin-alphabet language (e.g. Spanish) than to any language rooted in ideograms. Which is why, for example, Japanese has made no real inroads despite 40 years of massive economic influence.




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