A 2014 study by the investment bank Natixis even predicted that French would become the world's most widely spoken language by 2050. The authors of the study referred to were demographic growth prospects in Africa. French is also widespread in many smaller countries, Ammon said.
Classical populism. The word populism is derived from the Latin word populus, which means people in English (in the sense of folk, nation, as in: The Roman People (populus Romanus), not in the sense of multiple individual persons as in: There are people visiting us today).
Populism is an approach to politics. Populism sets up a struggle between the people at large and some nefarious class. Thus, protests in America about the 1% are populist. Complaints about East Coasters are populist. The problem with populism is that there's often a complete lack of understanding of the issues involved in setting this up.