In my opinion, I prefer learning English as a lingua franca because in that way you can communicate with people around the world and not specifically leave your culture behind. A clearly example would be when Spaniards arrived to Mexico; Mexican people were forced to learn Spanish and leave behind their language and some of their cultures. What some people try to prevent is to lose their cultures because those are aspects that defines who we’re becoming.
Learning English as a lingua franca may be more difficult than learning the language just after you were born, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. If you learn English as your second or third language doesn’t mean you will never be able to talk as a native speaker; in fact not all native speakers are competent users of English, some of them have a limited vocabulary or a low grammatical competence.
Anyway, if your first language is English you’ll not be forced to learn another language because it is not really necessary, but on the other hand, people who doesn’t have English as a native language will have the necessity of learning another language and that will help them to increase their knowledge.
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