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People barely now this, but theres a social inclusion aspect by creating the portuguese version of StackOverflow.

In Brazil, at least, only the kids of wealthy families have access to private english courses..

In regular school its just too weak to make a difference.. and of course there are the self-taughts.. a minority..

So, there are a very good social inclusion aspect in all of this.. make the rookie programmers start with the portuguese version.. then maybe they will just hit the english with time.. imposing a language barrier is a sort of elitism that will create a virtual barrier that doesnt do good to anyone..

I dont know why people rant about it, since all the good content is already in english language..

Allow even more people to enter into the technology world is a good thing.. let them learn english later, when theres a need..




This! People aren't realizing that in a lot of countries, english classes in the normal school system are a joke. And there are many people that don't have the resources to go to college or private classes to learn this. I have some young friends in Mexico that don't even have assurance of their next meal and would like to learn some skills to help land a better job than washing cars, but they're stuck. It's a catch-22 and having programming information and curriculum in their native language would remove one more barrier to them getting out of that situation. It'd also help me teach them since I wouldn't have to translate so much.




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