But some ex-colonies, such as India and Pakistan, were unpopular.
但是，一些前殖民地，比如印度和巴基斯坦，则并不受欢迎。
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Several of Britain's ex-colonies once did so but only because English was a neutral language among competing native tongues.
部分前英国殖民地国家确实选用了英语，但原因仅仅是它比本地语言更加中立。
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Nor are they all targeted at the poor: many of the world's poorest people live neither in the 50 least developed countries nor in Europe's ex-colonies.