How can language lead to cultural clashes?
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Language defines the way you thinks and what you think about. It also has an effect on a cultures values.\n\nSo if different cultures have different values, ways of thinking and interpration of events their will be clashes as different cultures interpret the same events differently
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Language is one of the best ways an individual can become a more integrated part of society. It is often a difficult and life-long learning process (to learn additional languages) but with tremendous benefits. Whenever I hear another language being spoken, I try to find the similarities that underlies all modern language. It inspires me to learn more about that particular language and also about the culture of the people that speak it. I suggest everyone should try to learn a few common phrases in any language, so that they may have the oppurtunity to communicate with someone you might not have otherwise ever thpught to do.
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Doubtlessly, you are 100% correct. Differences in values and goals have rather more serious causes of conflicts as compared to communication.
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The reason is as simple as it is obvious.\nLanguage is the instrument we use to transmit culture from one to another, from parent to child, from teacher to student, from the older generation to the next one, etc.\nYou may say that this can be done by the force of example and that is partially true, but only language enables you to explain WHY.
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Food restrictions, clothing, religious devotion (eg prayers to be performed at specific times, or just prayer period, not to mention Holiday confusion), specific mannerisms of different cultures is also a big issue. For example some prefer a separation of males and females, some teach their children to respect their teachers and elders while others mock, annoy and name-call teachers, etc. \nThe best thing ever to cure misunderstandings is education. What better place to learn about other cultures than school?
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no. people create conflict on an individual and group basis.  usually because of their own agendas.  under the listings of race you see intra-racial multiculturalism.  such as black, white, hispanic, white hispanic, black hispanic, samoan/pacific islander and asian/pacific islander etc.  any other racial combinations were listed under "other", but the word multicultural is now commonly used in it's place.\n\nmulticulturalism solidifies the cultural melting pot and promotes cohesion among various groups.  most conflicts about it are not just racial, cultural or social, but a combination of factors meant to retain specific cultural identities.  many groups take a separatist standpoint so as not to "lose" themselves and become something else.  \nto me multiculturalism is interracial and intercultural. it is the new civil rights and racial equality movement. as with anything it is a process, and it's acceptance as a natural societal evolution will not happen overnight.
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You pretty much answered the question the way I would.  It would be great to break down the language barriers, so we would realize there are less differences between us and "everyone else" than we think.  But yes, I think there's the danger of becoming too similar.  Maybe not, though...every country still has different customs and "slang", so maybe the cultural uniqueness would prevail.
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Language has the power to inflame, incense, persuade, comfort, inspire -- it can affect my emotions, explain ideas and concepts, inform, and move people. I can't explain your point of view; only you can do that.
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well u can make a culture web start with da word france in da middle and then draw lines comin out of em sayin food, tradition, religion, family, recreation, etc.
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well my culture has influence the classroom setting a lot where the teacher has the say in the class\nmeaning we students arent allowed to voice out our opinions that much\nthis culture tends to be permenant in the child's faculty even when they've reached univeristy level.\nlangauge proficienncy varies\nbut mostly what there always what the teacher says is always correct\neven when its wrong\nim from malaysia and a malay
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In-tolerance and ignorance. A simple rule to avoid culture conflict would be: Live your life and do whatever you want to do and believe whatever you want to believe, except if that causes harm to another human being or creature.Why stick your nose in someone elses business?
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Some societies have a single culture (language, religious beliefs, life expectations, etc), but one like ours (American) is fragmented.  Any somewhat unified group which has their own cultural glue could be called a sub-culture.  (Gays, Conservative Christians, Latinos, Urban Blacks, Gangs, Neo-nazis, Pagans, Yiddish Hebrews, Academics – the Ivory Tower, Politicians, Militant Feminists, Little China, Swingers, Artists, Musicians, etc.)\nThey often have a language or vocabulary which sets them apart.  When interfacing with people outside of their own group, they often behave or speak just a little differently than when they are with other members of their group.  Sometimes members are difficult to observe in public, but often they are proud of their differences and do not wish to blend in.
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This is something believed by some researchers  in some prestigious univeristies: There are more similarities than differences between cultures.Cultural differences decide the way something is percieved or felt. Surely there is a study of somekind in soem language about this phenomenon
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I think a few sentences here or there, if someone is excited or trying to express and idea, are reasonable.  However, having an entire conversation in another language puts up a wall and if the point is for everyone to be spending time together, it's not working.  People who can't understand will likely suspect they are being talked about.  If the majority can't speak the language and an effort isn't being made to share what they're speaking about, it's rude.
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Few cultures have succeeded as multi-lingual cultures. Most were small nations in Europe. It is possible to do. \n\nWhat happens is that language barriers create isolation. This isolation breeds hostility which eventually manifests itself in racism. It is the enevitable and unavoidable consequence of cultural barriers. \n\nLanguage however is just the symptom. It is the easy way to pick out people who do not adopt any of the culture. Who refuse to assimilate to the nation they have moved too.  If except for language the refugees adopted the customs of the land then they would be more readily accepted. The lack of a common language would cause glass cielings and other day to day obstacles. What is happening in the US is that multiple imigrant groups are refusing to learn English, adopt the American culture at all and worse many are openly hostile to the US despite living here and enjoying America's freedoms and economic prosperity. \n\nThis of course creates conflict. If illegals came here, learned English, adopted the core American values, tried to fit in. People would be much more sympathetic to them. Instead they refuse to do any of that.  When one group gets away with it then it encourages other groups. So today we have Asian, Eastern European as well as Hispanic enclaves where people rarely leave a transplanted piece of the origional nation.  They root against the US in sports. Consider Americans as the enemy or at best with suspicion.  Small numbers of enclaves like this can be tolerated but in the US today significant portions of the population live in such enclaves. The Hispanic factions in particuler are becoming politically active and interfering in US politics. The irony of it is amazing. They hate the US but use our freedoms and our economic prosperity to fight us with from within.
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Yes I would say so.  Apart from cultural things that may be tied to a language, each language also has a unique sound or melody which I think affects you in some way just the way that music can. It affects how things are expressed, as well as perceived. This is why I would be concerned about the spread of English; it could definitely hurt the diversity of the world.  And the mainstream English is not nearly as melodious as half the other languages out there in my opinion.
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When we learn another language, we are at the same time learning their culture.  For example, when I learned Cebuano in the Philippines, I learned certain things about their culture based on the language, such as always using words like "pohon" or "basin", which roughly translate to "God-willing" and "perhaps".  In this culture, there is often uncertainty of whether things will happen or whether they will be able to go somewhere, etc.