Some feel governments should invest in preserving minority languages, while others feel this is not a good use of resources. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. (Write 250 words.)

Some
people
feel that
government
should pay attention
in
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to
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preserving languages
that
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apply
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spoken by ethnic
minorities
because some believe that
language
can be an important factor in connecting cultural identity with ethnicity and can protect
people
from the feeling of isolation.
On the other hand
, some
people
believe that
government
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the government
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should not spend
time
on preserving something
that's does
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that does
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not benefit
people
in the
city
and should spend more
time
in
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on
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developing the industries in the
city
.
However
, I personally would encourage the
government
to preserve the
language
and protect the ethnic
minorities
from
the
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discrimination and isolation. The ethnic
minorities
group
are nowadays starting to get less and less and some
people
from the
group
doesn’t
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don’t
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speak the
language
of the
group
anymore because the majority of the new generation are now moving to the
city
. Some of the
people
in the
group
don’t want to learn the
language
of their ethnicity because they
thought
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think
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that it will not fit in the society in the
city
so they would rather learn the official
language
more
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apply
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than the
minorities
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minority
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language
and only the elderly
people
who speak the
language
are left. Some
people
have a thought that
government
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the government
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should protect and normalise the
language
and culture of these ethnic
minorities
and
don’t
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not
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make
they
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them
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feel isolated because some get discriminated treatment
from
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the
people
in the
city
because of their nationality and
language
. The benefits that the
government
will get from preserving the languages of ethnic
minorities
is
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are
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respect and admiration. The preservation of the
language
also
encourages the
people
in the ethnic
group
to be proud and
don’t
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not
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feel the shame of their own culture and
language
, even though some of them have to move to the
city
and speak the official
language
but
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apply
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they will still keep the
language
and identity without the feeling of shyness of their own culture.
However
, some
people
feel that the
government
should spend more
time
in
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apply
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developing the industries in the
city
rather than preserving the
language
that’s not
official
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the official
an official
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language
. Most of the industries can be grown in the
city
and from the
people
in the
city
not from the urban area. Some
thought
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think
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that it is a waste of
time
to preserve and protect
the
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language
that
is not use
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is not used
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as an official
language
because it
just
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is just
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the
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a
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small
group
of
people
who speak it, which will not
make
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any
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apply
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benefits
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benefit
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to
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the country and
government
. They
also
thought that the
government
should be more focused on improving the quality of life of
people
in the
city
more
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rather
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than preserving the
language
that would not
be use
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be used
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in the
city
.
Overall
, I personally believe that preserving and maintaining the
cultural
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culture
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and
language
of a
group
of
people
is something that should be admired and respected.
However
,
they
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there
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are still some
people
who would prefer to focus on the development of the
industrial
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industry
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more than preserving something.
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