| Learning other languages, such as French, is a | | | | prejudice against France and anything French. |
| good way to reduce the prejudices we have. If | | | | Prejudices are often just a sign of being |
| we learn about other cultures we will be more | | | | uneducated about certain countries, people, |
| diverse and open-minded. How diverse can any | | | | religions, etc. It doesn't even have to be a |
| city, state, or country be if it only knows one | | | | minority vs. majority thing. Minorities can also be |
| language? Languages tell us a lot about people | | | | prejudice against majorities. There are probably |
| who speak them. If we know more about people | | | | people in France who do not want to support the |
| we are usually more open minded and can see | | | | United States in any way because of our |
| other points of view. | | | | country's majority politics. |
| Diversity is necessary to stop all the prejudices. | | | | When you learn a foreign language, you get a |
| Prejudices against other countries who don't | | | | view into how people who think that language |
| believe the same way we do or aren't as strong | | | | think. Learning a language includes a lot of history |
| as us, such as the French, develop because we | | | | of the people who speak that language. People |
| do not understand the culture or perspective of | | | | who speak French are in France, Canada, and |
| that country. When the United States went to | | | | French New Guinea. Also New Orleans has a lot of |
| war in the middle east and the French would not | | | | french culture. Even the one language has a |
| join us, some of my friends did not want to eat | | | | diverse background to be in these varied and |
| at our local French restaurant because they didn't | | | | different places. |
| want to support the French who wouldn't support | | | | Foreign languages develop diversity because we |
| us in the war. The local French restaurant was | | | | learn more about the history behind the language. |
| owned by a french man and his wife, who were | | | | Diversity opens our minds to more options and |
| working on a visa in the United States. I do not | | | | develops empathy from knowledge. |
| know what their politics were, but this was a | | | | |