Japanese speakers are a minority in the world

from Words as Public Goods

Minority depends on the scope of observation. - Japanese speaker is minority in the world

• There are a lot of Japanese speakers who don’t think “we are a minority.”

• That’s because I can’t see anything but Japanese.

• Observation range

  • Fog of Literacy
  • Fog of War

• language barrier

  • Language Barriers to Attention
  • Language barriers

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