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Federico Fellini: Changing Aspects Of A National Culture

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Federico Fellini once said, “A different language is a different version of life.” Fellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose many films include a combination of memory, dreams, desire, and fantasy. Now considered one of the greatest films of all time and his masterpiece, “8½” is about finding a sense of meaning in life despite its being difficult and fragmented. One of the main ideology it deals with is the alienating effects of modernization. Fellini is showing how modernization affects ones’ society as a whole and can completely change a person as it did the protagonist in the highly influential film. The movie tackles the problems of changing aspects of a certain culture to the “western ways” have everlasting impact on …show more content…

It would be the end of our language preservation efforts, which we desperately need in this century. Anthony Aristar once said, “Losing a language is a major setback for everyone, because along with the language, you will also lose all of …those things [that] are of immense importance to all of us as human beings.” Do we really want to be responsible for the loss of an entire culture and the languages associated with it? John Donvan, who hosts “The National Public Radio”, claims that “[nearly half of the] world 's 7,000 languages…are expected to vanish over the next 100 years.” If different languages aren’t enforced to be spoken, then this was surely going to happen if not sooner. Even now, parents aren’t pressuring their kids that knows a different language, other than English, to speak it because no one else in their community knows or speak it. Without even having a national language, many younger generations are forced to learn English to accustom to live in the United States in the 21st century. Students are learning English in order to practically do anything in the English driven economy. Language and cultural preservation would be most affected by a change in the laws of the country and this problem will escalate as English dominates the world as a global

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