All you guys, I _wanna_ tell you something, but let me start with a
question. Have you seen the film "In the name of the father"?
At one point, the main character, an Irishman, says something like he
would like to put his fist in his mouth preventing him speaking a word
of the praised English language.
Well, I have different reasons but the same obligation, I have to
speak English. It is forced on  me, of course not directly by you, and
in a way it's my own choise. But momentarily your culture (whatever)
dominates the world, at least this part of the world I live in. And as
you see, if billions of people have to speak and learn a language
simply to be able eg. to get a job, they will have a natureal refuse/
resist feeling, they might  take the
freedom not to have a guilty consicence making a mistake in it.
I speak 6 lamguages, including English. How many do you speak? And on
what level?
I am proud eg. of my (btw typical Eastern-European) accent, I believe
it has just as much right to exist and just as much validity as your
own. I am trying to get better in my English, in every way though, but
it is only because maybe I have too much time, you know. The main
function of it is that, when I meet people from different countries,
we all use English, and not because all want to be able to write poems
like Poe., that's today's Latin, and that's it.
And anyway, give it up, you got the guns, but we got the numbers.
And where you might feel wounded around your ears, we lose complete
languages - so please do not complain, everybody is happy if they get
help in mastering English but only if it is articulated in a friendly
and helpful tone, and not happy to be told to do this and that.