The history of the British Isles shows the cultural effects of conquest and imperialism in many ways. What is now England was at first the object of conquest and, much later in history, itself a conqueror-first within the British Isles and then in such widely scattered regions of the world that it was possible to say, "The sun never sets on the British Empire." (Sowell 22)

The legacy of English can then be said to be global and it will likely continue to develop its stronghold on language acros

The way in which English has become a dominant global language is reflected in the many contexts in which it is used, either in total or in fragments necessary for trade or communication. In Graddol (1997) three is a listing of the domains of English in the international arena including: as the working language of international organizations and conferences, scientific publication, international banking, economic affairs and trade, advertising for global brands, audiovisual cultural products such as films, television and popular music, international tourism, tertiary education, international safety in air, and water trade and travel, international law, as a relay language in translation, technology transfer and lastly in the ever growing internet communication media. This dominance dictates a context, in each situation where English is a more or less a compulsory requirement to involvement in any given setting of those mentioned above and of coarse some not mentioned. The climate or context of English can differ greatly and the evolution of the language, as a living thing often changes within each as meaning and motivation as well as history and understanding ebb into each situation, to facilitate communication, either effective or ineffective. Graddol points out that languages have a hierarchy and that English in particular is a language that is often used not as a default because it is the language that is shared between two speakers, such as in the context of travel but is used in cultures as the appropriate language for a given communicative context often associated with a certain status in economic or social terms. (141)

Though it is also clear that native languages where often, and are still often not given the respect of being codified by foreign colonialists in situations where no written language exists and they are simply taught English or the colonial dominant language as a means of allowing the dominated culture limited access to the economic and political culture of the colonialists. One example that is striking in many minds are those situations where children of a dominated culture are educated only in the colonial language and in some cases are even barred from communicating with each other in their native language. In a sense language and the cultural ideals that are translated through it can act as a leveling tool for a largely less violent representation of cultural cleansing. In some sense the development of English as an international language mirrors the development of Latin as an inter-European language, during Roman occupation of many regions of Europe the Mediterranean and even northern Africa. Though there is no one alive that would remember such a situation the reality of its modern effects on culture and even the English language are still evident, though often not thought of.

In general, Russians played a role among the peoples of Central Asia much like the role of Western Europeans in Eastern Europe or like

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