Language and Culture Essay

Governments should require new citizens to assimilate into the native culture. Assimilation improves citizens’ wellbeing, increases social mobility, and increases the diversity of a society, because assimilated peoples are not forced to disregard their old culture, but rather to learn to understand and accept the culture of their new country. By requiring new citizens to adopt the host country’s cultural customs and beliefs, increases the unity of the nation while reducing tensions between…

imperative to understand the importance of culture in society, culture includes the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects passed from each generation to the next. Specifically, culture includes: (1) material culture, or the tangible objects that distinguish a group of people from other groups of people, and (2) nonmaterial, or symbolic culture, which shapes a group’s way of thinking. Symbolic culture comprises of gestures, language, values, norms and sanctions.…

immersing herself into a new environment, culture and group of people that seem to different from her. The language barrier was the hardest part of her transitioning process into a new location. However, in no time her diet changed,…

company and they face many the challenge. Also, most of the company has different culture and the way when doing job. In addition, when the company its different employees from the different country, which they can create problem and challenge for the company. Many challenge that produce from multicultural collaboration. The first challenge is direct versus indirect communication. The communication in western cultures is direct and open, but in some country the communication is indirect and…

Marcos is still using the nationalist language and bringing in the ideas of rewriting history, but now with an indigenous layer. He claims that the state and the elites are the ones who perpetuated the stereotype of the “ignorant Indian”. He also asserts here that the EZLN provided the platform in which the indigenous people could have a voice that has returned their honor in history. Marcos’ rhetoric seems to almost minimize the history and struggle of the indigenous people by implying that…

be limited to language. Kids need to be exposed to the culture and there needs to be a way to expose them to just how different life is over there. However I think the biggest challenge is motivating kids from a young age. I find it quite interesting that whilst travelling in Asia, the amount of people that can speak some form of broken English quite remarkable. Compare this to Australia, where other than English majority of Australians would struggle to communicate in any language. However…

describes in his article Vanishing Voices the threat of a dominant culture in a region eliminating minority cultures and languages through the rapid rise of globalization and technology (Rymer, 2012, pg. 6). The minority population of second generation children in Canada and the United States also face a bicultural identity crisis as a result of being submerged in a different dominant culture in which their old heritage culture (HC) world and new Western world clash. Although there are…

that is fully embraced is ethical cosmopolitism. This can be affirmed by the thought that there are common morals that are understood by many different cultures. For example, it is morally wrong to put your hand on a woman in a violent manner. Where the idea of political cosmopolitism as well as cultural cosmopolitism is only embrace by cultures like those of communist background like that of China, North Korea, and also the former Soviet Union. Mitchell has a very good understanding of…

Saving a Language Are languages worth saving? About 6,000 languages are spoken across the globe yet hundreds of those languages are swaying on the edge of extinction, and we may lose more than just words if we allow them to be wiped out. Language forms a pathway through human heritage and history, and a keystone of culture and self-identity. Thus, linguists are proposing that we should care about saving and preserving languages for various reasons. Both Suzanne Talhouk and John McWhorter put…

Digital, Platform, and Language Imperialism: An analysis of Cultural Imperialism Introduction This essay will explore the effects of a globalized digital era towards a standardized culture around the world. It will start with the evolution of imperialism by western nations, in particular by US, through the utilization of Web 2.0 and digital platforms. This essay will focus on cultural imperialism as the internet becomes a tool by influential countries to implement their cultures upon others,…