As decolonisation proceeded throughout the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s, former colonies often did not reject English but rather continued to use it as independent countries setting their own language policies.
A medida que a descolonización proseguiu en todo o Imperio Británico nos anos 1950 e 1960, as antigas colonias non rexeitaron o inglés senón que continuaron a usalo como estados independentes coas súas propias políticas lingüísticas.