This archive report was first published on 12 September 2019.
Language is a powerful tool that has the ability to shape our reality, influence our behavior, and create symbolic realities. It is a key factor in shaping our culture and identity.
As Confucius once said, people are similar at birth, but it is through exposure to their surroundings that they become individuals in their cultural group. This idea has been around for thousands of years and is still relevant today.
Language has the power to change lives by changing minds, shaping thought, and making a world of difference by what is said and not said. It embodies the rules of a culture and those who live in it.
Education has been used as a tool for acculturation, where the colonizers used it to impose their language and culture on the colonized. This is evident in the way English was imposed as the language of instruction, while native languages were seen as being for the
