Some New Learners of English
Every time I meet some new learners of English and talk to them, I stare at they way they dress and listen to the way they speak English. Some of them choose to dress outlandishly and fashionably, emulating Americans' lifestyles. They are free to do so, and I respect their new lifestyle. Still, what I can't make out is why they hold the misconception that learning and mastering a new language necessarily mean adopting the lifestyle of its native speakers. Some other new learners think that by imitating American or British people in every single life aspect, they are doing a good job. It is important to learn a lot about the British culture, but it is trivial to renounce our own lifestyle we are born with so as to adopt a new different one. I pity those who dress, talk, walk, and behave the same way as Americans do, for these sorts of men are no longer themselves. I am for learning any language and knowing everything about any culture and lifestyle. But I can not disown my origin. Most importantly, I am an English-language practitioner, writing in English, speaking to English native speakers, making them read what I write, letting them know that I am myself, a purely Moroccan Amazigh man in every aspect of my life.
very interesting topic
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