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Multiple Languages In Monolingual Countries
Some people think that having multiple languages in monolingual countries will help to embrace country’s identity, uniqueness and prevent it from a loss of culture. Others think language is dividing religions just as much as land or blood are and could possibly arise challenging conflicts among different ethnic groups. There have been mixed opinions and fundamental questions being raised on the organization of languages and dialects among one country, the one that attracts the most attention being the division in India, the world’s second most populous nation.
India has been an extremely diverse nation for centuries with more than 2000 different ethnic groups and was reorganized into linguistic states to remove the cultural tensions after Hindi was declared as Indian’s national language in the early 50s. Each religious state gets to form their own laws, policies with unique culture, dialects, and scripts. If you have seen a Bollywood movie, you will probably notice a variety of different language options besides Hindi, the native language spoken in Delhi –
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While the Sikhs take control of the radio and legalization aspects, the Hindus dominate in economic fields such as the green revolution. Differences in the languages and ethnic spur the two groups that could have enhanced the state’s development by collaborating together, further apart.
Among the 22 official languages, because of the historic event in 1950, Hindu is seen as a higher caste causing discrimination and mistreatment towards the less populous languages. People who come from the South of India to New Delhi is expected to communicate in Hindu but then if a person from New Delhi visits a Northeast State, they would ridicule and expect the minority population who speaks a different language to learn Hindu instead of respecting and communicate in local

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