User:Sivungaghmi

English is my second language but I became bilingual at a young age after I learned to read and write English in elementary school and middle school. Even as a six year old child, I wondered why we were not learning our history or culture in our language and worldview. Redeeming grace about being a student in a Eurocentric school system is that we learn how to think in two languages automatically and we do not realize it. We learn how the Western World thinks in relation to the world and how it relates to other people. Westerners do not realize that they are educated in only one way: in English and in their worldview. Polyglots are educated in their cultures and in the Western educational system. It makes polyglots learned in at least two worldviews and in two educational systems.

The more I wrote class papers in college, the more I realized that bilingual and multilingual people are more cognizant of how people think in different languages.