As for the pristine native-English speakers, when there are in their own nation, they do not feel anything grand about themselves other than a feeling of extreme ordinariness. However, when they move to live in nations which are run on feudal languages, they find a difference between their own systems and qualities. Human qualities that they themselves did not know of would seem to be possessed by them. They come to have a feeling that they do belong to a group of human beings who due to some quirkiness of nature are having a mental calibre, communication skill and a mental capacity to solve problems which seem quite unsolvable by native populations.

Explaining the superiority

Now, it is here that I need to intercede with the idea that this is actually an experience felt not just by native-English speakers. It is actually an emotion felt by all people who speak good English and live among feudal language speaking people who do not possess English capacities. Actually, there are no greater innate intellectual skills, capacities, or communication abilities in the native-English folk or in the English speaking persons who live among feudal language speaking persons. The feeling of a superlative quality is generally felt due to the ease of communicating and thinking in English.

The whole mental process gets uncluttered by the lack of a web of connecting links in the words, usages, sentences, dialogues, addressing, positioning and much more, to events, institutions and persons. Moreover, when a complicated subject is written in English, to a person who is good in English, the matter is easy to absorb. However when the same thing is written in feudal languages, many of them turn out to be quite complicated and complex. This could be due to some code errors in the feudal languages. Or could be due to the general complicated manner one’s brain is made to function in a feudal language.

For getting a gist of this, all one need to do is to read a Malayalam land registration document done in Travancore area. A document done in Malabar also can have complicated tones. However, when if one were to go through a document done in the days of or immediately after the British rule of Malabar, one might find a bit of less complexity. This might be due to the influence of the English administration that was there.

I can’t say more about this without making a more detailed study in this matter. I have done a lot of Malayalam-to-English and English-to-Malayalam translations as part of my self-employed vocation. I have generally found that when modern concepts connected to legal subjects, and technical ideas etc. are written in Malayalam, the text more or less becomes quite complex. However, the same contents are much more easier to grasp when written in English. And more precise. However, I have also found that when Malayalam-speaking people who are not good in English, write the text in English, they generally tend to write in the same complex manner as seen in Malayalam. I feel that it would be that they are thinking the subject in the complexities of Malayalam and attempting to write in English with the same thought process.

A lot of studies can and should be done connecting human language codes and Brain Software and their functioning.

Now coming back to the feeling of superiority felt by native-English speakers, there is this also to be mentioned. When they are with feudal language speakers who are rich and well-established, they can get to feel an inferiority complex also. This was very specifically told to me by a person who was a common worker’s son, His father did some menial work in some Middle East airport and with that earnings, he could get to study to be a Post Graduate. This young man got a job as a lecturer in a Middle East University. When I casually met him many years ago, he was sort of riding the crest of a very superiority complex. A lot of Malayalam-speaking persons who worked at odd jobs in the place looked upon him as a royal personage, due to their own lowliness. He could address them with the lowest of indicant words, and they naturally elevated him to the highest of indicant words.                                                       

Where the Englishman is an inferior

This man told me that his native-English colleagues (from England) were showing a slight veneer of superiority complex which was just a pose to hide their inferiority complex. This was actually something that was quite natural and something I had mentally predicted. For, this man was able to garner a sort of powerful subordination that went combined in a powerful web of devotion, adoration and affection, that the subjugating lower indicant words can induce in the other Malayalam speaking guys around him. At the same time, the English natives were more or less without anything in their arsenal to compete with this diabolic weaponry. This diabolic weaponry was double-edged. It could subordinate and at the same time, reap real worship from the negatively affected person. It is a stage on which the native Englishman is just a novice, a newbie. When he speaks with a lower man, there is nothing in the words to subordinate the lower man or to let him know that he is a lower man. 

In her new environment, Varuna was just one among the numerous students who were treated with a bit of disdain by the teaching class. For, for them, a student is an Avan or an Aval, (lower he and she) and they would be Avar and Adheham (both higher Him and Her). So a natural lowering of her status is encoded in her virtual codes. Its effect is magnified because the others around her who claim to be equal to her, are comfortable in their lower status, to which they would unconsciously or with vehement malice, pull her down also.

Usually when she asked a query to anyone, her usual experience was of getting a very good attention. However, in her school, her teachers wouldn’t give her any correct answer to her queries. I remember her trying to go in for a running competition. Everyday, she would come and tell me that this or that had taken place, and the teacher had said such a thing. The next day, she would say that the teacher had retracted and given her some other message. The feeling of not being taken seriously was also affecting her. For, in feudal languages, it would look pretty silly to take the words, queries, and statements of lower indicant persons seriously. And to answer them with gracious seriousness.

Actually this is a very visible aspect of Indian social communication. The boss or such other persons wouldn’t give a correct answer to their subordinate workers. They would be made to be at their tethers-end by being given continuously changing information and instructions. And at times, downright nonsensical information.

Beyond all this was the aspect of being evaluated by a group of people who had quite different scales of valuing. Varuna was a person, who was reasonably well-read in English books, knew a lot about English classical books and many English classical writers (through my storytelling), had by that time seen around 750 English movies, would address a man with a Mr. prefixed to his name, and woman with a Mrs. prefixed to her name without any qualms or feel of guilt, could swim in the sea, used to play football, could run for around 1½ kilometres without showing any signs of exhaustion, could roller skate, knew a number of English indoor games such as Monopoly, was adept at a number of Card games including Rummy, Trumps, and had trained a number of persons, both male as well as female, of age varying from less than her age to around 15 years elder to her. However, in the school, the evaluation was on the financial acumen that she could display.

Even though I did posture a feel of financial debility, actually when the family financial soundness was taken into account, she was actually coming from a rich background. However, it was my idea to test the idea that human quality was not connected to financial acumen. For, I had noticed that an ordinary working class person in England had better facial demeanour, self-confidence, self assurance, and quality looks than a rich person from Kerala. The rich Indian would cringe in front of an Indian government official. And there would be a lot of personality debilitating hierarchies inside his own family setup.

Even though there was a car in the house, I purposefully refrained from using it. {In Kerala, driving a private car is a very powerful indicant value elevating action}. Thus, in the new evaluation scales Varuna was a different person. Along with this was the powerful positioning of her in a new position in the virtual code arena in the school. She was to change visibly.

England

Now, how do I connect this to the England of some 30 years back? Well, actually I should connect this idea to an England that was there before this mentioned 30 years. However, it was in the last 30 years or so, that the English policy makers seem to have gone completely berserk. They have no idea that the native-English speaker is different from many other-language speakers. Each and every one of the populations that they feel is just same to them would be laughing out loudly at their simple gullibility.

However the issue is beyond that. The moment a native English speaker has to allow himself or herself to live in a social environment wherein people of feudal language temperament are also equally at home, he or she has depreciated his or her own value, in the virtual codes. By allowing themselves to be equal to persons among whom the concept of equality is not there, what happens is that along with uplifting the others to their own levels, they are allowing themselves to be pulled down, not just to the level of the newcomer, but to any level in the varying slots in newcomers’ own system.

The issue here is that the newcomer improves to the level of an Englishman. However, the same level of improvement is not there for an Englishman who becomes equal to a feudal language speaker. He is actually going down. There is nothing racial or self-deprecatory in what I have said here. What I have said here is connected to the issues of indicant words and what the users of these codes can do to human personality.

The Englishman who remains apart from a feudal language speaker and an Englishman who lives along with a feudal language speaker on a level of seeming equality are two different beings. And the latter can actually be of very varying levels of human individuality. Some of them quite tampered with, decayed and diffident. Others quite dominating, macho and truculent. And a few with rapidly shifting personality. All of these are different from the original pristine native-English speaker.

SEE THIS COMMENT that came countering my comments HuffingtonPost

kay360   April 12, 2012 at 5:16am

"In Asia, people do not allow their lower classes the chance to learn English. For, it would make lower classes equal to them."

"English is not superior, but downright common."

These two statements are contradictory by the way. Like most of your argument, it reveals you are biting off more than you can chew.

MY COMMENT: The attitude of this commenter is that I am trying for some kind of competition. That is not what I was doing. I was trying convey information that is currently cordoned-off from native-English speakers.