Case study
The case study focuses and discusses the cultural values and protective nature people feel towards their culture. For example both the Tremblay as well as the Lopez family keep their native languages of Spanish and French for the inherent cultural values it helps preserve and keeps. This is supported in the quote “The Tremblay and Lopez families… continue to speak their languages… they believe… it is important… in retaining and enhancing their cultural heritage” This quote supports my claim as it is explicitly stated that the reason the families support their language is due to the cultural values of such language. This is also represented by the utilitarian nature english has within these families settings; for example in an english …show more content…
This is represented by the fact that almost all former english colonies have english as the primary language; including colonies such as the US, and South America. Another reason that English speakers are distributed all around the world is due to the hegemony of english dominated countries such as that of the United States and the UK. This hegemony forces other countries to adopt English as to communicate with nations such as that of the United States; a country, who has military bases all around the world, and plays a prominent role in organizations such as the UN. This hegemony is also supported by the industrialized growth of the United States; as well as countries who originated within the United States. For example London, an english speaking country was the first country to ever use Air traffic control. As such almost all current day air traffic controllers use English to communicate with pilots. This causes a need to learn english within other countries. Many corporations who dominant less developed countries also use English at a international level as many of them originate in English speaking countries. This creates an incentive to learn English if you were to want to interact with these …show more content…
However, currently many cultures have faced the globalization effects of english as well as almost every other cultural change; as well as many people do not like the globalization of popular culture. This causes people to revolt but in lesser ways. A main way to revolt is to keep the local languages. This is done by reviving old cultures as well as preserving the old culture. There are many different languages which have been revived; such as Hebrew. As well as many different languages which have been preserved such as Celtic. However, there are also thousands of languages which have succumbed to the populous idea of culture and have adopted english as either a main language, or a combination of local languages. This demonization of the globalization of english as seen throughout many stubborn local cultures, as well as the countless examples of this happening is the root cause of people keeping their mother language.
Key Terms
There are many english speaking dialects that have been popularized by the immigration and unification of people of differing language groups some examples would be: Spanglish, Franglais and Denglesh. There are also modifications of the existing English language such as Ebonics.
Geography
The case study focuses and discusses the cultural values and protective nature people feel towards their culture. For example both the Tremblay as well as the Lopez family keep their native languages of Spanish and French for the inherent cultural values it helps preserve and keeps. This is supported in the quote “The Tremblay and Lopez families… continue to speak their languages… they believe… it is important… in retaining and enhancing their cultural heritage” This quote supports my claim as it is explicitly stated that the reason the families support their language is due to the cultural values of such language. This is also represented by the utilitarian nature english has within these families settings; for example in an english …show more content…
This is represented by the fact that almost all former english colonies have english as the primary language; including colonies such as the US, and South America. Another reason that English speakers are distributed all around the world is due to the hegemony of english dominated countries such as that of the United States and the UK. This hegemony forces other countries to adopt English as to communicate with nations such as that of the United States; a country, who has military bases all around the world, and plays a prominent role in organizations such as the UN. This hegemony is also supported by the industrialized growth of the United States; as well as countries who originated within the United States. For example London, an english speaking country was the first country to ever use Air traffic control. As such almost all current day air traffic controllers use English to communicate with pilots. This causes a need to learn english within other countries. Many corporations who dominant less developed countries also use English at a international level as many of them originate in English speaking countries. This creates an incentive to learn English if you were to want to interact with these …show more content…
However, currently many cultures have faced the globalization effects of english as well as almost every other cultural change; as well as many people do not like the globalization of popular culture. This causes people to revolt but in lesser ways. A main way to revolt is to keep the local languages. This is done by reviving old cultures as well as preserving the old culture. There are many different languages which have been revived; such as Hebrew. As well as many different languages which have been preserved such as Celtic. However, there are also thousands of languages which have succumbed to the populous idea of culture and have adopted english as either a main language, or a combination of local languages. This demonization of the globalization of english as seen throughout many stubborn local cultures, as well as the countless examples of this happening is the root cause of people keeping their mother language.
Key Terms
There are many english speaking dialects that have been popularized by the immigration and unification of people of differing language groups some examples would be: Spanglish, Franglais and Denglesh. There are also modifications of the existing English language such as Ebonics.
Geography