Common language

In our world of multicultural people we got used to hear different languages everyday, which brings up the questions if a country should be bilingual or have common language to unify. Charles Krauthammer essay “Let’s make it official” claims that we need a common language to be unified culture. A country is diverse in different culture but could be unified in language. It is necessary to understand what nationhood is, so that you the reader realize that a national language does not alter a nation. It binds the nation, but first we have to understand what a nation is. A nation is one that has been formed over many years and languages have been brought to us through imperialism, immigrants and time. We have to accept that, for most nations of the world to escape the profound experience of imperialism would be in fact to escape their own actual history. We cannot deny that there is an assortment of language, which abound this nation. However, we need to choose one unifying language, which we can all use. This is essential for purposes of communication and mediation. This national language would be the only official language so gives people something to Identify with, because identity is an ever-changing concept but with a common language we could reduce racism in the same culture and giving people something which they can all identify.

Grace Hsiang claimed in her article FOBS vs. Twinkies : The new Discrimination Is Intraracial that most students told of being discriminated against and marginalized by members of their own ethic group. Charles Krauthammer wrote “A separate national identity, revolving entirely around “Francophonie,” became a raging and a referendum that came within a hair’s breadth of breaking up Canada.
Identity is one which has changed through imperialism and it is one that has changed through apartheid and it is one which will continue changing in order to progress therefore a national language can become a part of this ever changing identity. A