Most english speakers in non-anglophonic global south coutries come from the rich upper-class or the urban middle class. The working class usually doesn’t have time or how to study a new language when they barely have time to learn their own (this is not a huge problem in regions where one or two similar languages exist, since they can easily talk to eachother, but that does allow the local elite to communicate with the global north better than the working class).
Most english speakers in non-anglophonic global south coutries come from the rich upper-class or the urban middle class. The working class usually doesn’t have time or how to study a new language when they barely have time to learn their own (this is not a huge problem in regions where one or two similar languages exist, since they can easily talk to eachother, but that does allow the local elite to communicate with the global north better than the working class).
agreed and exclusions apply for border cities/towns.