The Implications Of Migration To The United States

In some countries like United States, many people of different race speak more than one language, that is because people from other countries migrate to United States to seek for better opportunities. Being the so-called Land of Opportunity United States is, it is also known for being a diverse country in terms of ethnic population. Hence, migration is linked to globalization, as well as, the issue with language. For instance, one commercial advertisement of Coca-Cola promotes diversity featuring children and adults from different places and a patriotic song called America the Beautiful was sung in eight different languages (“Coca-Cola’s 570). Many people are opposed and reacted to the whole content and idea of the advertisement. A social media platform, Twitter, was used to express their outrage feelings about the commercial (“Coca-Cola’s 570). …show more content…
Due to the reactions or opinions of other people, it could be assumed that people have this notion that because a person live in a place where different language from his or her native tongue is being used, freedom to speak other languages is being taken away which will create harm to those existing languages, most especially to the indigenous ones. Immigrants may feel they are being discriminated knowing many people are against to them speaking in different language. With that, they might feel the need to discontinue speaking their mother tongue which might decrease the chance to pass their native languages to the next