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Language: The Barrier Between Americans

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Language: the barrier between Americans

Clearly, language can be a barrier. America is made of many different cultures although we are all Americans living in the same country, we are still somewhat separated. Our cultures are so different that we just don’t understand where people are coming from. Just think if we could all understand each other and come together with different ideas. We could make great things happen.

America needs to come together and create one identity, an identity in which we can communicate on the same level with one another. Language is who you are. If you can understand someone else’s language and culture, you can understand them and show respect to their way of life. As ------- says in ---------------------, “If a person has a low estimation of my native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me.” If you could connect with someone on that level, knowing where they come from and how they think, you could open up a whole new world of possibilities. And who knows, you might even like their culture and way of living. You could better connect with that person and be better equipped

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