Language is a universal topic and world of wonder. The only thing that is absolute about language is that it is complex. I think that everyone is impressed with people who can speak another language. Also, it is common for people to be attracted to others because they can speak a language different from their own.
Language connects people as well as creates a division as well.
A person who knows another language is usually of different culture and that indeed is a very beautiful thing. Cultures are meant to be admired, accepted, and thrived upon in this world. Culture shapes how we experience the world and it teaches the outsiders looking in how dynamic this world is.
Culture teaches people to be comfortable with other ways of life living as our neighbor and when looked at more deeply, other languages can teach us things about humanity that we never considered before.
People who desire to learn other languages have a very good heart.
Certainly there are people who learn other languages for career related reasons; but there are also special persons who learn a language so that they can learn and experience other cultures in this world.
The ambition to experience other cultures by way of learning their language is not beautiful - instead it is rather sexy!
We as people can become so negative and judging of others who are not like us. People get angry because visiting guests of other countries don't learn how to speak English and in result costs us time and energy to understand them.
When we connect a language with an Arabic country, we become anti-middle eastern counties and get overly patriotically defensive and insist they are all terrorists.
There are so many flaws in our society when it comes to the tolerance of being different.
There is an extravagant experience that awaits anyone eager to learn another language. There is no reward in mastering a language; the true reward comes from the new and deeper understanding as well as the full acceptance of the reality that there are different cultures in this world apart from our own.
Discovering the beauty within a specific culture is only the beginning of the impact one has on the world.
Culture and language is beautiful but the will to try to understand and experience others is simply sexy.
As a Christian I believe that the attitudes toward others should not be altered and restricted out of Christian duty but more of a goal that humanity as a whole works towards.
If humanity could grow and mature in this light, the world would be simply beautiful.
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