Memetic Horizon

Memes spread through a variety of modes but memecomplexes have the easiest time through language. Certainly, we would look to the most widely used and accessible language for a study of current affairs in memetics. There are approximately 379 million primary speakers of English, which, although a lot, is dwarfed by the approximate one billion that speak Mandarin. Now, I don't know any Mandarin, and what I could find online were words not pertinent to our discussion, however, under google.com using an English only search for ".com", yielded 5,230,000,000, while under google.cn, using a Chinese only search for ".cn", yielded 114,000,000.

Therefore I will use English as the language that is "most widely used and accessible" for our discussion. Memecomplexes developed and articulated in a particular language will be dependent on that language's prominence and accessibility, in a complimentary relationship. English dominating a forum which transcends space and national boundary gives the memes dependent on it increased odds in spreading. Some of the memes contained in laissez-faire (not a joke) capitalism or the modern pluralistic republic have this type of corollary relationship to English.

This isn't to say there aren't other languages with similar effects on the same memes or even that English is the only effective language for complex memetic dispersal. Merely English has a notable relationship with these memes and English is used heavily in the world. The three languages of the World Trade Organization are Spanish, French and English, the number one language to be studied by university students world wide is English. One might infer from this that as long as the internet is the primary mode of communication and English is the dominant language of the internet, then memecomplexes of an English disposition will spread at a higher rate then others. Not many will doubt that such a scenario isn't already happening, the debate is "how are these memes being received? in what light?"