How does world language study by all students help society?
Multilingualism expands our sense of community. By crossing cultural and linguistic boundaries to talk to one another, we gain respect for others’ differences and learn about the similarities we share. In a community, each individual has his own needs, desires, and expectations; the work of communities to allow the individual to know and express his own needs and “self” and simultaneously to hear and value the needs of each other’s members. When its members are able to do this, the community can work as a unit, hearing one another’s perspectives, negotiating compromises, responding to each other’s needs. Our history has given us the legacy of a pluralistic society, with groups of vastly diverse ethnic, religious, historical, and cultural heritages. When each group listens carefully to understand the perspectives of other groups without losing sight of its own, it communicates through the connecting passageways of language and culture. The participation of all members is essential; when
