Unnoticed racism

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In the "Foreign Languages" section of WP, there's only one subsection, which seems only for Spanish, Dutch, German and French, implying that other languages are not welcome. Or if that subsection is for any language, then why mention only those four languages? English being the language WP is based in, couldn't that title simply be "Foreign Languages", just to treat all foreign languages equally?

Maybe but it is not racism as those languages listed are spoken by individuals of many races.

I think "racism" is not the right term in this context but nvm. It seems the term is used for all kinds of cultural self-centeredness nowadays.

Officially: The languages on the list are only examples, all languages are welcome - provided you have someone to talk to in your language.

The languages mentioned are, most definitely, merely being used as "examples."

Alex could have included say "Arabic" in the list, to make the list of examples less "Eurocentric".

But he doesnt deserve a woke lynching for the minor oversite. Its not really 'racist'.

The languages on the list are widely used langauges around the world. Widely spread precisely because they are the languages of the now defunct colonial empires of western europe (English, French, Dutch, Spanish, etc) that were able to spread their languages around the world because they ruled much of the world at one time. So each of the ones on the list is spoken by folks of every skin color around the world.

Most non European languages tend to be confined to one continent. Even Mandarin Chinese (with more speakers than English) is mainly confined to just one part of the globe. And exception is Arabic which is spread across many nations in a huge swath stretching from northwest Africa east ward to Iraq, and the Gulf states in southwestern Asia.