Blonde hair, blue eyes; black hair, brown eyes; auburn hair, green eyes... With globalization on the rise, people from all ethnicities and tongues get together and open a new, exciting page of the humanities. Language exchange enhances respect among races, bringing about a more peaceful, more positive understanding among people from different corners of the world. Nevertheless, this exchange of culture has brought about confusion in some countries, certain religions, and a few mixed individuals. The excitement may seem mind-blowing, but the identity and essence of culture meets a point of crisis.
One reason may be that with immigration movements increasing, people now identify themselves not by their blood and ethnicity, but by their growing environment. American born Chinese individuals might feel more close to the western style and less engaged to their eastern roots.
Another factor behind this
phenomenon has to do with the dominance of certain tongues. With western
languages like English, Spanish, and French widespread and spoken by billions
of people, Asians, Latinos, and Africans start to experience a crisis in their
language identities. Should their own tongues be abolished? Is the frequent use
of western languages washing away the confidence and pride of their original
culture? These are questions that certain cultures continue to confront with,
and with it we see an inevitable, even dangerous "complex of
inferiority".
In conclusion, globalization may be offering us numerous chances of expanding our horizons, but there are sone bigger, unknown problems that many people seek to deal with. There might be a possibility that this issue cannot be dealt with, but at the moment we all are clear on the fact that we'll be needing a broader mind and acceptance of new identity definitions in a very near future.
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