- Not pro business
2. Micromanagement
3. Neglectful colonies
Why Eastern Europe sucks
- Poor
2. Difficult and numerous languages
3. Unfriendly people
Ways being a polyglot can suck
- It takes a lot of time hard work and energy
Learning a language, especially when your outside that country can be especially taxing. You could have used that energy to learn another skill.
2. You might not really like the culture or country of the language you are studying.
It might be too poor, too dangerous, the locals might be too prejudiced, or they just don’t talk about things that interest you.
3. You end up mixing languages
4. You hear the mean things other people say
5. You might have trouble finding work if you can’t blend in as a native speaker.
How to learn a language outside of the country
- Have someone to talk to in that language
Language is a tool for a communication.
2. Ignore the polyglots on youtube, and focus on that language
3. Visit Youtube sights and comment
4. Netflix or youtube is your friend
Why Academics make poor business people
Dierences between Academic and Entrepreneurial Mindsets
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Why language extinction is good.
- Makes people less bigoted and ethnocentric.
Then i realized that if the purpose of language is communication, the fewer languages we have the more we have in common. Linguistic skills don’t define your pride, love for her culture or her identity .
Culture shapes language, not the other way around. Any culture can work with pretty much any language. Most languages are basically the same (in terms of conveying ideas, not in terms of sentence structure) so having one language worldwide wouldn’t force people to change their cultural practices. Plus it would help integration and diversification of ideas. Not to mention the money you save on not having translators.
and culture are intertwined, however they are not inseparable. If they were, Ireland would have the same culture as say, California in the US or British Columbia in Canada. However, just as Irish culture influenced the Irish language, Hiberno English has been heavily influenced by both Irish culture and language, to. But to say that Irish culture is on decline due to the status of the Irish language is not true, and deeply hurtful to many Irish people. I cannot speak Irish, so therefore I don’t have and can’t understand Irish culture? My great grandparents, who faught in our civil war and were proud Irish nationalists, can’t be considered as having Irish culture because they spoke English? In a monolingual society the premise that langauge and culture are inseparable may be true, but in countries with a history like Ireland, they are connected but not inseperable
he historical German-American family was forced to give up their family‘s language or German dialect primarily during WW1 when it became illegal and taboo to speak the language due to the country of Germany being considered the enemy during the period. During this period, English-American (Anglo-Saxon) politicians who had seen a shift in the country‘s culture from the German immigrants of the 19th century used it to their advantage to try and return English speaking and Judeo-Christian Anglo-Saxon ethnic group to the main culture.
the US Civil War as a major factor, because it downgraded the place of French, and in 1916–1968 the laws of Louisiana made of French a foreign language and they could not get education in that language (and so you had some franco unilinguals that had now to go to schools in which they were punished when they spoke French).
2. Language is a tool.
Your culture is a big part of who you are, but it is not everything.
When it comes to language, it’s first and foremost a means for communication. With only a handful of users left, that’s hardly effective. I do believe that most cases of language extinction happened because speakers of those languages found a better alternative.
Languages evolve. 1000 years ago, people in Norway and Iceland were mutually intelligible. Contemporary Icelanders could probably understand Norwegians anno year 1000, but I can’t. Is that because that language has gone extinct or because it has evolved?
3. It’s puts everyone on the same page. Linguistic diversity within a country promotes underdevelopment. Africa has the most languages. Linguistically diversity ruined their lives.
4. It makes communication easier.
40 percent are bilingual, 43 are bilingual, 17 percent are trilingual, and only 3 percent are polyglots.
5. It makes life more easier for locals
This idea of mother tongue, at least in the case of India, which is very multilingual, doesn’t really hold enough validity,” Geetha told Rest of World. Without a single unifying language, a student moving from one state to another for higher education may be expected to pick technical terms in a completely new language, she said.
6. Makes it easier and more attractive for outsiders to assimilate.
7. It makes life more easier
They told me that in China there are so many dialects in the Chinese language that even Chinese people don’t understand others in their own country. The trouble with learning a language is the fact that if you aren’t exposed to it you will soon forget it. We learn stuff because we need to. We forget the stuff we don’t use. It’s just human nature
8. Prevents Social headache look at Quebec, Catalan,
9. Most people are for it. Because if they werent for it, they would learn those languages themselves.
10. We have to learn your language, but you don’t learn ours.
They believe it is “unfair” that others have to make an effort, while they get a free ride, and there is some truth in that. Unless you use a foreign language on a daily basis, speaking it is hard work – even if you are good at it.
But this would not necessarily be remedied if majority language speakers speakers tried harder to learn foreign languages. If you tried to talk to me in broken minority language, it would be hard work for you. But here’s the thing: it would be even harder work for me. Because I would have to try to make sense of your gibberish.
The problem is that all the effort being put into preserving a dying language is not being put into anything else. The school hours that Irish students spend learning Irish are hours that American students are spending on science or math. The money spent on state-owned television stations in a dying language is money not being spent elsewhere. Is it really worth directing that effort?
Now, I’m not saying we engage in the deplorable practices of wiping out languages. We should not punish children for speaking their native language, force people to change their names, or require workplaces by law to only use the preferred language. But I am suggesting that we leave it up to individuals whether they want to preserve a language. I suggest an end to deliberate efforts to support a language. There’s a difference between cold-blooded murder of a language and taking it off life support, and we’ve too long equated the former with the latter.
Cities of the Caribbean: Cayenne, French Guiana
Known for its diversity It is the best place to be an illegal immigrant
- Its diverse so anyone can blend in
- Lax laws
- Consequently, training is often described as not only physically challenging, but also very stressful psychologically. French citizenship may be applied for after three years’ service.[11] Any soldier who is wounded during a battle for France can immediately apply to be a French citizen under a provision known as “Français par le sang versé” (“French by spilled blood”).[11]
Jobs and industries- Tourism-, construction, space exploration, shrimp processing, forestry products, rum, gold mining, education.
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The Islands are known for their diversity
Black
Creole Black
Latino
Asian
Saint Laurent
Korou
Things Africans in Africa need to understand, especially when dealing with outsiders
- Reputation matters.
Lot of Diasporans resent you for
2. Nobody outside cares about your country let alone tribe
3. NonBlacks are regular people, they are not gods or devil’s.
4. Do not steal or do crime, or cheat people.
5. Dont get mad if you came from a poor background and someone is saying something positive about your country.
Cities of the Caribbean: Saint Barts
Celebrity Islands
Countries that remind me of hell
- Libya – Chaos
- Haiti- Chaotic no infrastructure
- The large amount of money paid to France and the US has had long-lasting repercussions for Haiti. Firstly, the nation was unable to invest in infrastructure, education and health systems as money was used for debt and interest payments instead. Secondly, the heavy taxation levied upon the citizens to pay the debt forced farmers to focus their production on cash crops, such as coffee, wood and sugar. Consequently, Haiti now faces excessive deforestation and soil erosion, as well as an overreliance on food imports. Finally, widespread poverty brought on by the country’s debt situation and American privatisation policies have generated political instability and corruption. Groups fight each other to rise to power and get their hands on the breadcrumbs that remain.
- Congo – Chaos
- Somalia – Chaos
- Central African Republic – Tribal Warfare
- Levant Countries
- Any country in West Africa except Cote D’Ivoire and Senegal. – Corrupt, dirty, backward, emotionally draining.
- India – Racism, Colorism, filth, hatred
- China – Racism
- Eastern Europe
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