&gt;&gt;Well, not really representative of Asians at large then.<p>I didn&#x27;t tell that I am representative of Asians. I did tell that thing to emphasize the fact that I am NOT a westerner English speaker.<p>&gt;&gt;There are always people that adopt a new culture and frown upon their old culture -- there&#x27;s also whole thing called &quot;internalized racism&quot; -- feeling your ways are inferior to those of the dominant culture.<p>Then I&#x27;d say that there are people who like to cling to their cultures&#x2F;ways however rotten&#x2F;backward their cultures&#x2F;ways&#x2F;customs might be just because they become emotionally attached to it.<p>Meaningful progress can be made only if we look at our ways (cultures&#x2F;customs) critically and if require throw part&#x2F;whole of it away. Today there is so much knowledge available in English that if a person (or better any sizable group of people) adopts English language, he&#x2F;she gets huge benefits out of it.<p>&gt;&gt;outside businessmen and techies exchanging business communications and technical information.<p>Most of the societal progress happens due to technical  innovation&#x2F;progress and business communications. Here also English dominates the world. Take for example the Wikipedia. The English one dwarfs any other language wikis.