So what do you call &quot;wanting the death of cultures alien to you because you don&#x27;t understand them&quot;?<p>I see you complaining elsewhere in the thread about the use of the term &quot;racist&quot;. Yes, I&#x27;m with you, it&#x27;s <i>not</i> racist. I said it was xenophobic in answer to that. People confuse the terms a lot because often enough they can be used interchangeably. But the very etymology of xenophobia is &quot;fear of what is alien&quot;.<p>This thread is a very, very clear example of that. You don&#x27;t like it maybe because you don&#x27;t see it, or you don&#x27;t understand how inconsiderate it is to take somebody&#x27;s language - an essential tool of communication, built over thousands of years with immense and incredibly diverse legacies - call it &quot;useless&quot; and wanting it gone.<p>I would love to discuss the practicality and side effects of &quot;standardizing on a single language&quot;. Why it&#x27;s not that simple. Why it won&#x27;t have the effects you&#x27;d be looking for. Why languages even exist in the first place. But this thread started rotten and got worse -  nothing good can come of it anymore.