Who Speaks English Today?

I thought this article was especially interesting and grabbed my attention because of my previous knowledge on the subject.  Having taken a TESOL class with Dr. Seloni before, some of this information was not brand new.  So, gaining more in depth knowledge on the ENL, ESL, and EFL was helpful in my understanding.  Also, I enjoyed hearing more about pidgins and creoles because I learned basic definitions in previous English classes and was very interested in learning more.  I really liked reading about McArtheu's six proviso's about what's wrong with categorizing English speakers into only three groups.  Each one was very descriptive and I felt that nothing was really left out or left me with questions.  The two that I definitely couldn't agree more on are the first two; how, "ENL is not a single variety of English, but differs markedly from one territory to another, and even from one region with a given territory to another.  In addition, the version of ENglish accepted as 'standard' differs from one ENL territory to another," and the second, which describes how, "Pidgins and creoles do not fit neatly into any one of the three categories."  These two points are sort of obvious in my opinion, and are the two biggest problems with the three categories of English speakers.  The one that I wasn't quite aware of was number six, which was about the separation between native and non-native speakers of English by those who were born and raised learning the language and those who learned it through their education.  This continues on to describe how native speakers are considered (and apparently always have been) superior, somehow "better" simply because they learned from birth and their home, but has nothing to do with quality, which baffles me.  The intranational purpose for English would be offensive to me if I were in the Netherlands or Scandinavians, etc. shoes because language is so SO much more than just words; it's culture, how we communicate and have understanding with another person, show emotion, describe things, and many other things.  It kind of makes me wonder, what is so great about English that these people are almost changing their country's native language?  I feel like it's so much more, which we know; politics, social status, and the list goes on.