1.
Crummell would not be satisfied
with the present language situation in Africa because he thinks it is good for
the black to grow up using language of Westerners as their mother tongue while
this has not happened in Africa, where milliard of languages are still alive
and one who is ambitious faces necessity to use his second tongue to be a
successful person and to form a culture for his country.
2.
Advantages: People would be internationally
active (communication, business, adopting foreign culture) because there are less
barriers against Communication in English. Unlike Japan, where the larger
percentage of the population are not even willing to use English on a daily
basis, everyone has a basic command of English, which is advantageous in
sharing information with people all over the world through media. Also, it
would be easier to land on a position in a company from an English-speaking
county or a company in other countries.
Disadvantages: Moving
around inside the country would entail language problems. Other than having
basic conversation in English, one might have difficulty in understanding those
living outside of one’s own region. Also, individual lives might be affected by
slow decision-making in politics. An
English-speaking country in Africa could stay as a collection of hundreds of
small nations under a government. Provided democracy is in place, for better or
worse, it might take a lot of time to reach political consensus due to
differences of views and interests not to speak of the time for translation of
documents. Many people might suffer from delay of the introduction of new laws.
3.
On the surface, the language
situation in Japan and that in Africa might look the same, the people
communicating in a common language, but the actual circumstances are totally
different, one providing a much more favorable environment for development and sophistication
of a culture than the other. Japanese speak their mother tongue which is part
of their tradition. This situation provides perfect matrix for well-rounded
evolution of their tradition. On the other hand, Language situation in Africa
would lead to the difficulty of realizing cohesiveness of disparate regions in
one nation. Given that their common languages are not directly rooted in their cultures
and merely play the role of a communication tool that barely helps convey common
denominators of each concept, building a mature culture common to all ethnic
groups in a county might be almost impossible, especially when many areas still
suffer from civil wars, which are a legacy of colonial period whose policy was
to separate Africans and make them hate each other.
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿
注: コメントを投稿できるのは、このブログのメンバーだけです。