>>17
I've seen this first hand. My native language is really poor compared to my English but that's because I was educated in the West so there's that too. What worries me is a whole generation of people who interact online and speak better English than their mother tongue, think with English ideas, completely loose or look down on their indigenous culture etc. And a lot of these people are fluent in online slop variants of the language. It really pains me that I don't speak my native language anymore and its so niche I can't just find someone to teach me it.

>>17
Communicating via Discord/Youtube/Reddit is a form of stupidity, nothing inherent in English makes people careless in their thoughts and the atrophying of their native tongue is not a feature of a foreign language. Perhaps I'm nitpicking here or maybe I'm wrong and this is a trend explicable through sociolinguistics. But I get what you're saying.

I'll have to admit I am one those Zoomers who only speak English and I consider myself to be more fluent in it than my native language. I even switch .gov websites from my native language into English when I'm doing taxes or whatever. Yeah, make of that what you will. On anonymous boards like this I'll try to write like an American to blend in and make it harder for people to correlate my identity between posts, but on my own website I write in British English. Opposing American imperialism by pledging allegiance to another Anglo-Empire... As a schizoid hikkineet I am already an eternal outsider without any particular ethnic or national affiliation so "my" culture means nothing to me. It's all up for grabs.