I watched a TV program about people in Africa, country of Malawi, reporting what Japan is. They came to Japan, and report whatever fascinates them. They went to Tsukizi to see Japanese eat raw fish, and unagi, and kimono, pet shop, etc.
And I felt really interesting to see people who even don't know a fragment of Japan get to know about Japan. This is not the rare case to me, I've been always greedy to let non-Japanese to know about Japan. It feels good to tell. I think we are made to communicate regardless of our race, color of skin. There are now no boarder of information, there is just a physical boarder. As internes get prevalent, the physical boarder becomes distinct. Considering this world became much safer, even though there are still a lot of conflicts, that physical boarder is now becoming lower and lower.
I don't care which country I belong to, I love Japan, but if I have to live in other countries in order to achieve something meaningful and important to me, I don't care. Because we are now all connected physically and informationally. The physical position does not really matter. This is gradual unification of physical and informational distance between people.
Next, the language is becoming unified. It happens to be English that became lingua franca. Using English, it is beneficial for all. I learn and use English not because I love to learn, but because I can reach something that is important to me using English. In one part, I love English language itself because I like its rhythm, but essentially I don't want to bother to learn it if it was not lingua franca. It just happens to be. I think this stream will not stop. More and more non-English speakers use the language, and now the number of non-native English speaker outnumbers that of native speakers. I hope this is the beginning of language unification. With only one language, it will be so much efficient to communicate. I don't feel sadness about the disapeeraring languages because I know the beauty of internal human intellectual activity. There are so much things that could not have been communicated because of language. That loss is the loss of the world. Maybe 2 more next generations, we'll be talking one language. Isn't it great.
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