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Look at the Baltic states, for example. There is a couple million of people speaking each of their language in this world. HOW can they possibly compete with the English language (or the Russian language previously)? There needs to be an insane centralized governmental effort that would involve a noticeable financial strain to create a special agency dedicated to translating shit, which no one will ever bother to introduce. Instead, the population will just continue to study the local language, they will know it, they will communicate with each other in it but, whenever they have a need to interact with any sort of information not immediately available to them, whenever they need to access the rest of the world (which is most of the time), they will turn to English.
What this means, most noticeably, is that they're subjected to the international thought much more than the in-group one. Minor populations barely break a dent in the Anglophone discourse on their own, so they just become a passive part of it, partaking in it at the face value. Sure, I call these countries reddit states jokingly because of this, but I'm not really doing this to demean their people. Their countries are factually the ideal international unit of the current system.
All of this happens on its own. You can't escape this without recognizing this force for what it is.