日本の方々　日本語、もっと自慢してほしいと思うですが part 5 In other countries,.. while its normal and natural for new words to be introduced by emerging younger generations, they are words that already have their roots in that language or ones that are re-adapted or tweaked as slang, or words to name a new thing or concept, such as wicked, sick, bomb, planking, ranga, brekky, tune (as in, to sweet talk a girl) etc. No-one feels as urgent a need as the japanese to change their own language so comprehensively and rapidly. Nowhere else is there such a willingness to passively accept it . In each of the other countries in which I have lived, Australia, France and Indonesia, there is a love of and pride in the national language. People are proud of their own language, it resonates with them. It would be weird and unthinkable to say, 'lets stop using these 700 words from our own language, and use the words from that country instead'. It would just never happen. I have heard one long term foreign resident in Japan say that the phenomenon is just evolution of the japanese language. I find such an opinion very anglophone ethnocentric. Evolution implies 'improvement', for a higher chance of survival. Japanese survived perfectly well for over 1500 years without using any english words at all. Furthermore, that is why we have translators and interpreters. More and more english words replacing japanese words does not improve japanese, it detracts from it. The aim of evolution is to become smarter (not more basic), while preserving uniqueness and richness of variety.