Unit 9 Writing : There shouldn't be one world language.

                    In the world, there are more than 200 countries. However, there are more than 7000 kinds of ethnic groups. Considering that language is the window that shows everything, every culture and every knowledge of the world, this diversity is resulted from a number of languages. In recent decades, globalization has been coming to fore, but its appearance was also caused by the diversity of languages. In this point of view, globalization and the world's official language is a kind of way that enables people to understand and learn about other various cultures. Therefore, the world should not be unified with only one language due to preservance of  a lot of knowledge and culture that are included in languages, difficulty of designating the world's one official language, and the risk of domination by the powerful.

                  First, we should preserve the diversity of languages since they include a plenty of knowledge and culture of the world. While it might be more helpful that carrying knowledge with one language, protecting and conserving variouseness on the earth is more valuable. For example, the tribe of Seri have hundreds of terms for desert plants and local animals. This has been contributing to scientific field. Also, researches about various details of languages help to find and learn innate part of human cognition. For these reasons, using one world language necessarily deprives us of priceless knowledge.

                   Another reason why there shouldn't be one world language is that there is a difficulty of designating one official language. While some people may think that English is eligible for world's official language since it has been already playing a role as an official language, there are many things to consider when designating one language for the world.  For instance, we have to consider elements such as language's wide popualrity, practicality, aesthetics, and so on to set one official language. However, evaluating which language meets these needs is difficult and ambiguous because there is no criteria to specify those elements. Thus this difficulty makes an objective assessment impossible. Furthermore, there can be disputes or conflicts among many countries when deciding world's language.

                  Finally, if the world is unified with one language, the powerful that used to use the language will tend to dominate the other countries. Even though one of unified language could promote unification of the world, original users of that language can dominate the whole world. In fact, since the United States is one of the most powerful countries, the language, English has been adopted as an official language. Up to now, the United States is the powerful and it is doing tacit domination over the world even if English is not only one world language. In this point, we should be careful about the risk of unfair control by using one world language of the powerful.

                     Designating one world language is might be beneficial for the world of globalization, but there is an obvious reason why the world should maintain the diversity by using a number of languages. This is because there is a need to preserve variouse knowledge and culture, difficulty of deciding one official language, and the risk of being dominated by the powerful that have been originally using the language. As a result, there should not be one world language keeping a lot of languages and ethnic groups. Without them, varied and diverse world of present would not exist.