Cultural Diversity In The United States
Cultural diversity is seen everyday in our society in the United States. As defined, the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. When it comes to public speaking and cultural diversity, you make think how these two connect. They actually go hand in hand in becoming a well rounded public speaker. In our world today, there are over six thousand languages that are spoken in our world. To narrow it down, in the United States today there are over three hundred languages spoken. As a U.S citizen, you would expect that most of the people living here speak English are their primary language, but that is actually incorrect. There are around fourteen million households in the United States today where English is not the primary language.
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So in given a speech in the United States, it would have to be more complex then you think. In knowing how many languages are spoken in the U.S., and how many houses in the U.S where English is not the primary spoken language. Culture to culture the language differs, which is why there is so many languages in the world. In thinking about public speaking, you must think about the audience. While you may be speaking English, half of the audience may not be speaking English. The audience, especially since you are in the United States, is so diverse. One person may not even speak English but how would one know. Certain languages have similar words, in certain language I am meaning those “romantic languages”, like Spanish, Latin and Portuguese, where words are very similar. Yet, these words have different meanings in the certain way you say them. The meaning of words also changes from language to language and in the way one interprets them can change in that way as
So in given a speech in the United States, it would have to be more complex then you think. In knowing how many languages are spoken in the U.S., and how many houses in the U.S where English is not the primary spoken language. Culture to culture the language differs, which is why there is so many languages in the world. In thinking about public speaking, you must think about the audience. While you may be speaking English, half of the audience may not be speaking English. The audience, especially since you are in the United States, is so diverse. One person may not even speak English but how would one know. Certain languages have similar words, in certain language I am meaning those “romantic languages”, like Spanish, Latin and Portuguese, where words are very similar. Yet, these words have different meanings in the certain way you say them. The meaning of words also changes from language to language and in the way one interprets them can change in that way as