Most in the U.S., ethnocentrically think English is the most-widely spoken language. But if you think about it, that defies logic.
With just over 1.3 billion people (1,330,044,605 as of mid-2008), China is the world's largest and most populous country.If this is the case, there is no way English is the language with the most speakers. Check out the top 20 oral languages spoken on the planet.As the world's population is approximately 6.7 billion, China represents a full 20% of the world's population so one in every five people on the planet is a resident of China. (Matt Rosenberg, About.com).
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This is very interesting, there are more Chinese speaking people in the world than English, but then again China is one of the biggest's countries in the world today. The U.S is a culturally diverse country where many people from all over the world learn English as a second language and in Baruch there's obviously more Chinese than any other culture in our school. Then again I still haven't seen everybody in school so i could be wrong. I've only seen only a portion. But everybody does statistics in their head. If you see a lot of any culture like Hispanics, we tend to think there's a lot of Hispanics in the world, but were not looking at the whole picture. We tend to live by the portion of people we see and in our own minds we make it represent the whole world. We have to learn to think outside the box and consider the whole world and not just the cultures we see around our neighborhood or school.
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