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Why do we capitalize I and certain other nouns?

Asked by BerlinRose (194points) November 9th, 2013 from iPhone

I just wonder why nearly everything is written in non-capitals, but “I” and “England” and all this stuff is written in capitals, but “you” isn’t?!
In German the polite form is that “Du” and “Sie” (you) is written with capitals, but not “I”. Where is the sense behind it?! Isn’t it a bit self-centred?
Thank you answering :)

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