Hence a precondition for communication is that the weaker party, the Third World, use the language of the stronger. Were it not for the language problem, this money could be channeled to useful projects such as health in the Third World. The European Union is a regional organization which uses eleven languages. At least a fourth of its budget is spent on translations, because any document produced in one language must be provided in all others. Again, this is money which could alternatively be used for helping the Third World.
Individual countries are also multilingual.
These include the former Soviet Union, India and China. Some of the ethnic languages in these countries are given official status, but many are not. India has over 200 language minorities, but only 14 of these are used on the money. Hindi is being pushed to become a language of choice along with the English, but this produces resistance from the peoples of southern India. This situation generates not only confusion but inter-ethnic hostility.