This week in class we read an article called "In Plain English: Let's Make It Official," by Charles Krauthammer. Krauthammer talks about how his experiences growing up in Canada, and how the bilingualism of Canada has caused a political war. He believes that the United States should take advantage of the common language of English and make it the official language. He believes that monolingualism will bring, "a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America." (Krauthammer 744). I believe that monolingualism is beneficial to this country, mainly because of the way it brings many people of different ethnicities together. This idea is similar to that of the division between DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Similar to the division of languages in Canada, many people are divided between these two comics. My belief of the issue is the same as my belief about the unity of language. I think that people should enjoy both of these comics respectively, to experience more great superhero stories, because both are very rich in lore. They should do this instead of only choosing to follow and enjoy one comic. Comics and language are both more successful when brought together, because they bring people with different walks of life together in unity, which is the basis on which America is built on.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Bilingualism Vs. Monolingualism
This week in class we read an article called "In Plain English: Let's Make It Official," by Charles Krauthammer. Krauthammer talks about how his experiences growing up in Canada, and how the bilingualism of Canada has caused a political war. He believes that the United States should take advantage of the common language of English and make it the official language. He believes that monolingualism will bring, "a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America." (Krauthammer 744). I believe that monolingualism is beneficial to this country, mainly because of the way it brings many people of different ethnicities together. This idea is similar to that of the division between DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Similar to the division of languages in Canada, many people are divided between these two comics. My belief of the issue is the same as my belief about the unity of language. I think that people should enjoy both of these comics respectively, to experience more great superhero stories, because both are very rich in lore. They should do this instead of only choosing to follow and enjoy one comic. Comics and language are both more successful when brought together, because they bring people with different walks of life together in unity, which is the basis on which America is built on.
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Great job on bringing in comics and language. I think that it is really interesting how we decide that dc is better than marvel or vise versa is like with language accents. While sometimes it's better than the other we need to take into consideration that the purpose of comics is to enjoy not to be dissected. Just like how people speak English in different accents we need to accept them with the same respect as others. Just like comics, they provide a different viewpoint to consider and reflect. -sujaya
ReplyDeleteI really like how you brought together language and comics, it was very creative! I agree and think that being monolingual puts people at a disadvantage because there is so much to offer when you understand more than one language. It opens doors for communication and travel, and allows people to live to their full potential.
ReplyDeleteI think the way you discussed both language and comments was very creative! But I do have to disagree with you that monolinguism brings people together. With the issues now of people getting angry at others for speaking another language, having an official language would only worsen issues exponentially as people would become more and more hateful at those speaking a language other than english.
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