explain how language is asource of disunity?

Answer 1

see: arnold schwartznager speaking english

Answer 2

The old saying about England and USA - 2 nations divided by a common language. eg: hood/bonnet; trunk/boot, sidewalk/pavement. We can basically understand each other, but.......! Also consider tower of Babel. Before that 1 common language. Mankind all worked together, got too confident. God gave curse of different languages, so no more unity. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

This is about how language can be used. It can be used to communicate accurate information, or it can be used to, well, lie - or shade the truth, selecting bits of truth while leaving out others. "She's a large woman" may be factually accurate, while "She's a fat hippo" is judgmental and conveys a negative impression.

Thus you can describe a racial or ethnic group objectively, say, "Many professional athletes are African-American," or you can say (forgive me, I'm trying to make a point here), "Niggers (I have to point out that Yahoo! won't even let me say this word, but it starts with "n") have taken over the NBA." See what I mean? (Eww - excuse me while I take a shower...).

This happens daily on a personal level in conversation, and politicians have used it to manipulate people since the dawn of time. If you identify a whole group you fear/hate/are jealous of, then you can focus the attention of people on that group, while you do other things - things they ignore, because they're not watching you. You can also avoid blame for bad situations by saying what's going on isn't your fault - it's the fault of "those damn (insert group here)."

You can also use language to divide people and get them upset so they don't look closely at what you're doing. When, for example, the GOP decided to focus politically on the issue of "gay marriage," they got their followers very worked up about the "threat" of homosexuals marrying (show me one marriage that broke up because somewhere a gay couple wanted to marry), which allowed some of their politicians (not all Republicans are bad) to pull back-room deals. Almost no one was asking hard questions about no-bid defense contracts, for example, that awarded billions to friends of politicians in office, because so many people were arguing about whether two men had a right to marry.

This also gave many people in the party the impression that they were bonded together to fight the "threat," so had unity and determination to stand against those who disagreed.

Winston Churchill used language to unify his people to withstand the brutal attacks of Nazi Germany in WWII. Hitler used language to set apart Jewish citizens of Germany and the countries it concquered in order to give them focus and purpose so they'd do what he asked in order to stamp out the "Jewish threat."

It's partially about word choice (see above - "African-American may be longer to say and has connotations all its own, but it sure beats the ugly history behind "******"), and partially about what you use language for - to communicate truth, or to lie.

Answer 4

language is ver imp
in any field like in comp u can learn c,c++,java,.net,vb6,oracle,unix,linux
nd in the same way language like we hav accepted english as a universal language to communicate b/w each other
nd if we don't knw this lanuage thn we can not unit two or more thn two people of different country using different languages.
so if u dont learn language thn its a source of disunity
not when u knw different languages