Darija

Statistically speaking, language level may reveal ones social status. High educated people seem to master a broader set of words than those who aren't. The president of a country, the CEO of a company display a rich vocabulary, that is not available on "lower class" citizens.
Another point is that a language must be able to express basic concrete things as well as complex abstract ideas. The spectrum covered by any language should fulfill the needs of all minds in order not to lock or disable communication.

I have been thinking about one of my languages, a dialect, and found out that it could not express easily abstract ideas. But language is developed in function of the needs, adapting to minds. I concluded then that language, in this case, is a proof of the high rate of illiteracy of my country.

Educated people escape this determinism using classical arabic (which is a highly abstract and rich language) or a foreign european language (mostly french or spanish). But, it is well known that those people are a minority, since mastering more than one language is not common (statistically speaking...). What about the rest of people? Should we conclude that they cannot express their ideas, concepts but only their states, needs, feelings etc... What is more dangerous is that those people grow knowing one language, and thus think in that specific language: how can we develop a rich abstract idea when our own language doesn't provide tools to express it?

I haven't made up my mind on this point yet, but here are some suggestions:
-enrich the dialect
-learn other languages and combine them with the dialect when speaking

Any proposals?

Flying birds

I just came back from a trip in Italy with one of my brothers.
I visited Venize, Bologne, Florence and Roma. No need to describe the beauty of this cities.
Italy is a very cultural and historical country, its people are joyfull, alive and enjoy the good life.
Beyond that, what deeply stroke me during these holidays was the few specific times when I met with australians, europeans and americans traveling around the world during several months or years.

I wondered then what prevents me from leading the same style of life and came up with the following points:
-Finance: These people move from job to job in order to save enough money. This is relevant due to the high salaries of their countries when compared with the ones they visit.
-Visas, frontiers and barriers: Belonging to the western world provides many privileges, among which is to be a citizen of the world. Visiting countries avoiding the heavy procedures of VISA, police investigation, airport searches etc...is a mere dream for many people that don't belong to this set of countries...

At first, I thought that these universal travelers benefit from the advantages provided by their wealthy countries, and didn't generate any profit, idea, project etc. Thus being what I call burden-citizens.
But then I realized that their experiences would enhance their home countries knowledge as a whole by allowing it to understand the world. These children may gain a valuable human experience that could be a great asset for any country. In a world that is getting smaller and smaller due to globalization, those profiles are the ones that copple with the current trend, they could fit in any position since they have developed their power of adapting...possibly the leaders of tomorrow.

Why not me? Why not you?