I learned Esperanto out of curiosity, and I am not a fanatic Esperantist. I know many Esperantists from various countries, even those who don’t speak English or other major international languages well. Our friendship wouldn’t have happened without Esperanto. Esperanto is successful in this aspect.
I believe Esperanto is not perfect, no language in this world is perfect. Esperanto is not perfect or has failed because people who opposed it promote negative comments about it. If they don’t want to learn it, they can leave it and don’t need to comment. They express negative comments in articles or videos to attract uneducated followers who would jump to conclusions without further research.
Esperanto is indeed Euro-centric. The creator lived in a European neighborhood. Esperanto would be Asian-centric if the creator had lived in Asia when he created Esperanto. This Euro-centric characteristic is not a problem for Asian Esperantists. They care more about how useful Esperanto is than what Esperanto resembles.
Esperanto doesn’t have a culture. This is true at the beginning of its creation because an artificial language is an imaginary product. However, the more speakers Esperanto has, the more common traits these speakers have, such as jokes that only Esperantists understand, or traditions that only Esperantists practice.
Esperanto is an artificial language, not a natural language. Some think it doesn’t deserve to be a common language for human communication because it doesn’t evolve like a natural language. It is true but, at least, it is created and inspired by human languages. I am a programmer, I see Esperanto as if it was a programming language. Programmers from different countries without speaking the same human language can read and modify codes written in the same programming language.
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