<P> In Bangladesh the system of education is divided into three different branches . Students are free to choose anyone of them provided that they have the means . These branches are: The English Medium, The Bengali Medium, and The Religious Branch . In the English Medium system, courses are all taught in English using English books with the exception for Bengali and Arabic . English medium schools are mainly private and thus traditionally were reserved for the upper and upper middle class . However huge demand in urban areas has resulted in large number of English - medium schools mushrooming . This has caused a fall in quality . O and A level exams are arranged through the British Council in Dhaka . </P> <P> In the Union of Myanmar, the education system is based on the British Colonial model, due to nearly a century of British and Christian presences . Nearly all schools are government - operated, and also there has been a recent increase in privately funded English language schools . </P> <P> The United States of America won the Philippine--American War (1898--1901), and declared the Philippines a US colony . US imperial rule followed . Mac Síomóin quotes the Filipino scholar E. San Juan who made the following comment regarding the use made by the US administration of the English language to rule his country: </P> <P> Its conquest of hegemony or consensual rule was literally accomplished through the deployment of English as the official medium of business, schooling and government . This pedagogical strategy was designed to cultivate an intelligencia, a middle stratum divorced from its roots in the plebeian masses, who would service the ideological apparatus of Anglo - Saxon supremacy . Americanization was mediated through English, sanctioned as the language of prestige and aspiration . </P>

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