What Are The Disadvantages Of The English Standard System?
The English Language Amendment was passed promoting Standard
English as the national language of California. However, throughout
the generations foreign speaking children tend to forget their
language as they grow older and are sometimes even ashamed of using
their language in public. In the Philippines, for example, there
are numerous tribes, 7,107 islands, and 171 languages - many of
which have been long forgotten. Under the educators' instruction,
Filipinos are required to learn English during their childhood and
teenage years. Those who come to America will slowly improve their
English language skills and will eventually discover acceptance in
the community simply through the public use of the national
language. Some may become careless and fail to recognize the
importance of maintaining the language that their parents and
grandparents have once taught them. Every seven years a language is
lost, and it is unfortunate to see how fast dialects become extinct
over time. If American-born people of various ethnic backgrounds
were to neglect the use of their own cultural language by only
using English, not only will they lose the backbones of their
cultures, but they will also lose the souls of their identities.
The constant use the Standard English system will only contribute
to the thousands of wonderful languages that are gradually fading
away.