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Conclusion - America for Americans - Education budget- Bilingualism Understanding

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1.  From Patagonia until Alaska Everybody is American America The ideal of growing is include people without differences in society, the ideal of society is to keep an environment without differences in opportunities, economy, the bad idea from economy is to keep people in higher levels than other ones, for that reason, here in the western hemisphere, the new world we even the Spanish people (Latin-American people), Spanish speakers although we are the majority, we still think that English have the possibility to access to more goods and services, and how we cannot think that if in south america, everything is filled with the security services sold by the higher industries with the most valuable capacity to kept us safe, far away from the danger.  We become in elective, because the difference between the elective circumstances represent prestige, status, politics and power.   Thus, every great circumstance in this continent and apparently around the glove is given in Engl...

Differences of being bilingual and bicultural

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  Bilingual The concept of bilingual allows in our language to designate the ability of a person to use and speak two different languages indistinctly, in any type of communicative situation and always with enormous efficiency. Bilingualism can be of two types, native or, failing that, acquired. Bicultural Bicultural is that which implies the coexistence or the union of two cultures. The idea of culture, meanwhile, refers to the set of knowledge, traditions and habits of a community, a historical period, etc. A region is bicultural when there are two predominant cultures on its territory. The term can also be used with reference to an individual or an institution. At this point it is important to differentiate between bicultural and bilingual. The bicultural, as we said, supposes the presence of two cultures, while the bilingual refers specifically to two languages. In general, bicultural is also bilingual, although bilingual may not be bicultural. Many times people are b...

General objective for the blog

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The main objective of this blog is to generate a reflection about bilingualism and what the implications of being bilingual really have, since its meaning is sometimes misinterpreted. In this blog you will see some differences between bilingual and bicultural and that you can also be bilingual and bicultural at the same time, which can conclude the topic in a more open and concrete way.

Introduction Implications of being bilingual

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  First of all, is important to know that beng bilingual is be able to use two or more languages. Sencond, bilingualism exists in many countries of the world, for example in North America 35% of the population is bilingual, in Canada 20% and in Europe 56% of some 25 countries is also bilingual, according to a study carried out by the European Commission. (2006). Obtaining bilingualism around the world occurs through the need of people who have traveled throughout history, whether for business, employment, religion, education, culture or conflict, to destinations such as the US, Canada, Australia, among others. Defining a person as bilingual is some what complex, since sometimes the person does not master both languages ​​fluently and does not have an accent in one of the languages, this means that they can be monolingual because they master one language fluently and with an accent and the other not so much, that is to say that it can be monolingual of two languages. For this reason...