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==Consequences==
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=== Linguistic influence ===
{{See also|Englishisation}}

Due to colonization and immigration, the formerly prevalent languages in the Americas, Oceania, and part of [[South Africa]], are now usually Indo-European languages or creoles based on them:
*[[English Language|English]] ([[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[United States]], and [[Canada]] without mainly French-speaking [[Quebec]]); [[English language|English]] along with [[English-based creole languages]] ([[Anglophone|Anglophone Africa]], [[Antigua and Barbuda]], [[Bahamas]], [[Barbados]], [[Dominica]], [[Federated States of Micronesia]], [[Fiji]], [[Grenada]], [[Guyana]], [[Hong Kong]], [[India]], [[Jamaica]], [[Kiribati]], [[Marshall Islands]], [[Nauru]], [[Palau]], [[Papua New Guinea]], the [[Philippines]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], [[Samoa]], [[Singapore]], [[Solomon Islands]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Tonga]], [[Tuvalu]], and [[Trinidad and Tobago]]).
*[[French language|French]] ([[Quebec]], [[New Brunswick]] and parts of [[Ontario]] in Canada and [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]]); [[French language|French]] along with [[French-based creole languages]] ([[Francophone Africa]], [[French Guiana]], [[Guadeloupe]], [[Haiti]], [[Vanuatu]], [[Martinique]], and [[Saint-Barthelemy]]).
*[[Spanish language|Spanish]] ([[ the Americas]], [[Equatorial Guinea]], [[Western Sahara]], and the [[Philippines]]).
*[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ([[Brazil]], [[Lusophone Africa]], [[East Timor]], [[Macau]], [[Goa]], and other members of the [[Community of Portuguese Language Countries]]).
*[[Dutch language|Dutch]] along with [[Creole languages]] ([[Suriname]], [[Aruba]] and the [[Netherlands Antilles]]).
*[[Afrikaans]] along with English (parts of [[South Africa]] and [[Namibia]]).
*[[German language|German]] along with [[Creole languages]] (along with [[Afrikaans]] in [[Namibia]] and some areas in the US, such as [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Pennsylvania Dutch language|Pennsylvania Dutch]]))

Many indigenous languages are on the verge of becoming extinct. Some settler countries have preserved indigenous languages; for example, in New Zealand, the [[Māori language]] is one of three official languages, the others being English and New Zealand sign language, another example is Ireland, where [[Irish language|Irish]] is the first official language, followed by English as the second official language.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

=== Sports importance in Westernization ===
{{See also|Western sports|Muscular Christianity}}

The importance of sports partly comes from its connection to Westernization. The insight by Edelman, R., & Wilson, W. (2017) explains “This new system of thought and practices imbued with positive values in the exertion and strategic deployment of the human body, embracing the Anglo-American notion that physical activity was meaningful in and of itself, conducive to values such as learning and character-building. Modern athletics and competitive sports, avatars of this new body culture, elicited largely willing local receptions in North Asia, though there were no doubt isolated cases of coercive foisting better characterized as cultural imperialism.”<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edelman |first1=Robert |last2=Wilson |first2=Wayne |title=The Oxford Handbook of Sports History |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-985892-7 |page=273 }}</ref>