Why is it that the UK has lost its power to the point that it's

shut the fuck up nip

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>>79277922
When are you going to stop picking on people?

>>79277922
>now
is it 1950?

>>79277922
They became too submissive to American interests.

>>79277922

Newton’s Principia Mathematica was written in Latin; Einstein’s first influential papers were written in German; Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Yet today, most scientific research around the world is published in a single language, English.

Since the middle of the last century, things have shifted in the global scientific community. English is now so prevalent that in some non-English speaking countries, like Germany, France, and Spain, English-language academic papers outnumber publications in the country’s own language several times over. In the Netherlands, one of the more extreme examples, this ratio is an astonishing 40 to 1.

English won; German lost.

>>79277922
How are they not as influential as Germany? They have a stronger military, there are 1.5 billion English speakers and 220 million German speakers, they outrank Germany on 3 out of 4 soft power metrics, they have strong ties across the globe through the commonwealth, they score just under Germany in GDP despite 17 million fewer people.
I fail to see in what way Germany has a greater global influence.

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>>79278149
That's because academics have been capitalised; it's no longer about producing the ideas and results, but about earning money. Due to English being the most widely spoken language, papers are often written in English.

Furthermore, people have become less accustomed to learning new languages, so to engage new - and old alike - scientists they need to write in English, which everyone knows.

It's not a good thing.

We just can't compete

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>>79277922
Why is it that Japan has lost its power to the point that it's now not as influential as choco puffed rice?