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As what the economists tell us, due to the comparative advantages between nations, free trade would boost the prosperity of the world as a whole. As a result, the earth, as a huge village, has been marked with the unprecedented free trade, free communication and free exchanges. During the process, English, as the most dominant one, is gradually becoming an universal language. At the same time, in contrast, many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them. Thus, a very urgent question has been put on the table of the governors of countries where these languages are spoken : should they act to prevent their languages from becoming extinct? Definitely yes. 开头新颖, 避开了模板式语言.
Why?It is because the local language actually plays a vital role in preserving the local residents' cultural identity, which has intrinsic value for social cohension in that region and gives its citizens a sense of self-worth. Every infant comes to this world without an identity. And it is largely their mother culture that gives them certain identity. For example, we can easily tell whether a person is an Amercian or Chinese through their different cultural symbols such as: their languages, their clothings, their behaviors and even their values etc.. According to the sociologiests,拼写错误 such cultural identity is very significant in forging the social cohension among its holders and giving them a sense of self-worth. Anyone who has even belonged to a group with certain culture knows this. But how do we learn culture? Our language plays a dominant role in it. When we were too young to read, our parents and teachers mainly used the spoken language to teach us our culture; after we were equipped with the reading capacity, we ususally use the written language to learn it. In this sense, one language, as an indispensable part of its culture, is virtually a vehicle of transmitting and recording that culture. Thus, as the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them, the culture in that region is in the danger of disappearing. After all, if the vehicle is broken, the goods in it will surely be fallen apart. Consequently, the residents in these countries will lose their cultural identity, which would definitely ruin the soical cohension in that region and destory their sense of self-worth.
But who should take this responsibility? The governments in which these languages are spoken should be on the front line. Firstly, these governments have the obligation to preserve their culture, since their purpose as an institution is to promote the well-being of their citizens. And according to the analysis above, it is obvious that people losing their own culture will be upset, let alone be happy. 这一点有点味道不对吧So these governments should take steps to prevent their languages from extinction for preserving their culture. Secondly, the local governments have a variety of manageable resources which can be applied to protect their languages. They may enact relevant laws to safeguard their local languages. Or they may issue protective policies favoring the use of their own languages. For example, they can strictly require their schools and universities to add the literature in their own languages to students' compulsory courses. Plus, some scholarships can be provided to the foreign students who study their languages by the local governments.
However, these countries can not completely depend on the endeavors of their governments to protect their languages, and they must utilize the efforts of the whole communities to fight in the war against the extinction. Today's world is heavily dominated by the force of globalization. Due to the benefits coming from the comparative advantages, a responsible country can not isolate itself from the rest of the world. Since the drives for globalization are so powerful and the participation in the global trade is so necessary, English, as an international language, will surely become more and more dominant. Hence the local governments' efforts along can only play a comparatively less and less role in preserving their languages. So it is up to the whole communities in these countries to take action to protect their languages from becoming extinct. Besides, governments, as the authority institutions, have the bad reputation for the inefficiency, even though their measures and policies may take effect. Hence it is imperative for the governments acting to safeguard their languages to cooperate with the rest of the whole communities, such as non-profit organizations, educational institutions, companies with social responsibilities and etc, to work for the protection of their languages.
To sum up, because of the important functions of languages to preserve culture, the governments of the countries in which their languages are fewer and fewer spoken should take urgent steps to protect against their extinction. Although the governments have the obligation and many resources to fight in the war for the protection of their languages, they alone can not make a big difference. Facing with the powerful globalization process, and also due to the governments' inefficiency, the rest of the whole communities in the nations should be united with their governments for preserving their gradually vanishing but precious native languages.
文章条理清楚,先说语言重要,因此政府保护这些濒临绝迹的语言;社区也要起一定作用.
注意的一点就是在开头段中是否需要表示一下也需要社区的作用呢..
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