Conclusions about Unit 2

REFLECTION

Talking about the role of language in the constitution of the culture of a place is a fundamental element to begin to understand the conception of the world, of society and of the person who belongs to a certain place; Furthermore, language is how identity is generated from the conception of the world made up of different groups.

Even so, it is important, even knowing that this will not be liked, to reveal the role of English as a language of pressure and submission of those who do not share it and as the foreign language in the colonization processes they become a weapon against the inhabitants of different cultures around the world.

Although the language is innate to the human being, the fact of being social animals makes this relationship change from anthropological, sociological, and educational points of view that allow positioning an integral perspective. At first, culture can be defined as the different dimensions of society that have a direct impact on individuals (Sánchez Fernández, 2014). For this, the concept of Tylor stands out, who details each element that constitutes it: beliefs, arts, morals, laws, and customs to facilitate survival.

This leads to show how English came to Uganda as part of the process of British colonization on the African continent, causing elements of culture to be eliminated as their religion. Although one of the native languages ​​is preserved, it is important to analyze how learning a new language also became a way to begin to erase its customs.

On the other hand, in the case of Jamaica, the island of Santiago was conquered by Spain and later taken by the English. Even so, history repeats itself and that is that its initial settlers were practically razed and with them it is legacy; therefore, the arrival of Africans and their flight to become maroons were what gave identity to the island from the language they began to share with its colonizers. To date, this roots in the fact that the head of state is exercised by the Queen of England.

Finally, the situation in Haiti is more complex, English is not one of the official languages, they were taken by Spanish, English, and French, the identity of its inhabitants is based on miscegenation and much of its culture live thanks to oral tradition... This is a good example of the intercultural communicative competence that L. Oxford and others develop in their texts because it is not only the competence to communicate but the intercultural way in which this has been gaining strength.

Although the primary objective of this document from the university was to highlight the importance of English in the oral traditions of these countries, personally for me, after deepening some of the history and oral legacy, is that English is only a language that imposes different cultures to erase what they are and maintain what from a dominant language is considered valid and necessary. Perhaps, the only advantage is that if it is possible to transmit to English some parts of what was the identity of these nations, it can be systematized and last a little longer.