Cultural Geography: Language

Today in class we talked about cultural geography. Some characteristics of cultural geography are that groups of people teach each other things. Ideas and themes spread like crazy when people hang out with each because they teach each other about them. These themes and ideas can either link together or divide a group. Some things that people teach others is languages. The Spanish language unites the Hispanic world. But it Brazil, some people speak Portuguese and some people speak Spanish. Does this mean that the people of Brazil hate each other? No, it means that different parts of Brazil speak different languages because that's what they have been taught. In the world today, English is considered the world's language. This doesn't mean that people who speak English and people that speak Spanish don't like each other, It just means that if the people you grow up with teach you the language they speak and it's different all around the world. That's what makes people different from one another. Some people are lucky enough to be able to speak more than one language and that's a good thing because it means you can talk and hang out with people that aren't in the group that you grew up with or that you hang out with.