The world has been much closer with the advent of aerial technology and rapid development. In the past, especially 150 years ago, people might never have dreamed visiting England within 10 hours. Even if the globalization has given numerous benefits to us, it has also had negative impacts on each country’s own national identities as well as cultures. This essay will explore what the internalization has caused and enumerate possible ways to lessen the causes.
First of all, lingua franca has occurred through the world. This is largely attributed to English which has been considered the world language. Accordingly, countless languages across the world have undergone morphological alternations heavily influenced by the influx of English. To illustrate in detail, Korean has a lot of words imported from English. Since the Korean War, Korean has combined wit English. Moreover, as people are more exposed to the media and the internet, they can easily access foreign cultures. Through these channels, original Korean has been altered to a contaminated language. In addition to this language problem, the young generation in Korea pays less attention to traditional cultures, such as Korean history and costumes. They are largely fascinated by the western cultures.
If the above is plausible, how can we relieve these problems? Let’s look at the language matters first. In the case of North Korea, every time they import foreign words, they attempt to change them to Korean language(s). Unless they have proper words, they try their best to coin new words. But, we haven’t tried to make new vocabulary. This is the very policy we should pursue. Second, history should be a required course(s) at universities. Therefore, university students must take history lectures in order to graduate from undergraduate school. (Even if) It’s because they are urged to enroll such class, the class can consciously or unconsciously instill the importance of history.
To summarize, nations are getting closer and closer. This phenomenon (not only has) has not only presented benefits, but (also has) has also offered disadvantages. The disadvantages might be included in the following categories: language alternations; lack of interests in traditional heritages and outfits. In order to alleviate these problems, we should change foreign words to proper Korean ones and history lectures should be a prerequisite for graduating students.
