Arguments for Single Language:
-A slight decrease in misunderstandings of languages
-no tax money would have to go towards ESL courses and programs
-a vast amount of ink can be saved seeing as french and spanish directions would not have to be printed on shampoo bottles.
-Ideas that were once isolated from most other countries are not relatively available.
Arguments against a single language:
-Forcing people to do stuff never usually works out
-mass opposition
-MASS DEATH OF CULTURE AND INDIVIDUALITY
-can't remove dialects
-there will always be misunderstandings due to the fact that colloquial language is subjective to geography, which is how different languages evolved in the first place.
b.) A dying language can not be saved by purely teaching it to children. The people of a culture have to want to save the language. Saving languages is quite an expensive process. Dying languages can be preserved, (e.g. Latin) but without people actively speaking the language, it can never be rebuilt to its former glory of a full language.
c.) The "International Mother Language Day" seems rather counter-productive to the IB's goal of exposing students to the world around them. It can be assumed that students speak their mother tongues at home and in the majority of their schooling, so a special day needed to enforce that has little to any purpose.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Earth VS. Eyeth
a.) The primary argument of the Deaf students was that Gallaudet, being a school for the deaf should have a deaf president, just as most black universities had a black president.
b.) The students thought that a deaf president would be better suited towards attending to the needs of the deaf community and would better understand and preserve Deaf Culture. A President who grew up hearing could never begin to understand the minds of the deaf students as evident in the anecdote of the woman who, during the fire alarm, said "How can you understand me in all this noise?"
c.) Spending too much time in either Earth or Eyeth is the isolation. While deaf people identify themselves as being deaf and naturally gravitating towards each other to form a community, this formation excludes people who are not deaf. This causes a problem when deaf people demand to be treated just like everyone else, when they naturally cut themselves off from the hearing world.
d.) While the school board must have considered all the candidates qualified, the students wanted a deaf Gallaudet president that was best suited for their goals and needs. The students were right in demanding a deaf president because any other president would not be best qualified for the school.
b.) The students thought that a deaf president would be better suited towards attending to the needs of the deaf community and would better understand and preserve Deaf Culture. A President who grew up hearing could never begin to understand the minds of the deaf students as evident in the anecdote of the woman who, during the fire alarm, said "How can you understand me in all this noise?"
c.) Spending too much time in either Earth or Eyeth is the isolation. While deaf people identify themselves as being deaf and naturally gravitating towards each other to form a community, this formation excludes people who are not deaf. This causes a problem when deaf people demand to be treated just like everyone else, when they naturally cut themselves off from the hearing world.
d.) While the school board must have considered all the candidates qualified, the students wanted a deaf Gallaudet president that was best suited for their goals and needs. The students were right in demanding a deaf president because any other president would not be best qualified for the school.
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