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PostSubject: Main world languages promotion   Main world languages promotion EmptyMon 16 Nov 2020, 11:49

Sparked by what Caro said on the forum of literature in the thread "Currently reading" about the globalisation of TV programmes as the British murder plot series, I wanted to say that there are perhaps clusters of language related tv programs distributed allover the world that power the influence of one particular language into the nowadays world.

And it may even as in the British series Grantchester be dubbed in French and with French subtitles on the Francophone Belgian Televison (RTBF), it remains nevertheless a British series, as I learned, and confirmed by what I coincidentally recently searched about Anglicanism, that in a murder case someone said to the local vicar that he belonged to the High Church, seeing as shown in the film that in the Mass the Communion was given the Roman-Catholic way and other practices in the film that were close to Roman-Catholic customs.

All to say that I have the impression that in British series the original language stays for or is part of the British or Anglo-Saxon culture.
Returning to Caro, I wanted to say that I thought, that New Zealand, as Belgium, The Netherlands are part of that English language cultural and linguistic appeal and perhaps lessĀ Germany and even much less Spain and France?

And it could perhaps be subject for a university thesis, how much "penetration?" the mainĀ  cultural languages of the world have in the nowadays world by means of their respective television programmes? And yes, perhaps even more by their "language? related" organisations?

Can one consider the Commonwealth as a kind of a motor of the Anglo-Saxon culture and English language?

In any case the French organisation of the Francophonie try to do it in my opinion?
https://www.francophonie.org/
http://observatoire.francophonie.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LFDM-Synthese-Anglais.pdf

As the "Instituto Cervantes" do for the Spanish language and culture?
https://www.cervantes.es/default.htm

And the Chinese with their "Confucius Institutes"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute

The Germans with the by LiR named Goethe Institut?
https://www.goethe.de/en/index.html

And finally the Russians...
with their Pushkin Institute?
https://www.pushkin.institute/en/
The Russian TV? RT?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

Is it a coincidence that especially the Anglo-Saxon world do not exercise a kind of promotional campaign as the French do for their language and culture? As they haven't to do anything? Started from their imperial past
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
their language and culture was spread allover the world.
A bit the Dutch Republic's way via trade and miltary protected trade routes. Only that that Dutch motherland was too small a country to keep its military presence allover the world?
And that Anglo-Saxon presence of the British motherland, later affirmated by its former colonies as the US to the detriment of the Spanish, French and Portuguese language world?

Is it therefore that these former colonial powers try to bring their language and culture again on the world forum, by means of "institutes" as mentioned above? I am not sure if it is not an uphill battle?

Of course the recent "imperial" powers do now perhaps the same as Russia, Germany and now the latest one China with their language and culture via the above mentioned means?

Here in Belgium, as we were always the victim of dominating European neighbours as Spain, Austria, France and very recently two times the Germans, I remember still from the memory of my parents during WWII, the promotion and appliance of the German language, everywhere present in defiance of English and French.
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