When nations conqueor other nations they often have the effect of replacing the conquered people's language with their own. The overall effect of this is the death of native languages and the replacement with new languages. When this happens in the macro scale what is left is about 5-7 languages surviving and all the rest becoming extinct. This can be very useful for business, having markets merge into larger markets, but people's culture, history, language, and self-identification become dead. When people teach English as a Second Language overseas in China a bit of the Western culture rubs off on the Chinese population. It is like a way on conquering another nation with a soft-kill. There are no dead people, just people who have their culture questioned and get open minds in considering things that they would not have otherwise considered. Political systems for example can be things that the Chinese hadn't considered before. They are told that Capitalism is bad, but then they see someone from a Capitalist nation and they are found to be happy, content, pleasant, and free. This can change their perception of who "The West" really are. Granted there are some things about The West that are very bad, but there are many more things that are good.

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