Language may vary reflecting the historical, demographic, economic and political factors unique to a region. While all cultures revolve around one language and all languages are not enough to satisfy all communication cultures, bilingual has emerged for better perception looking at the world. When we learn to speak a different language; we learn to see a bigger world. Bilingual education has become an umbrella to expand into courses in areas focused on the theoretical foundations and methods of language arts often used to refer to “programs designed for language minority students.” (Feinberg 1). In its simplest form, bilingual education is a special effort or program intended to help immigrant children learn a second language, since it is true that being bilingual provides cognitive advantages and creates a strong effect on the brain's executive functions, but speaking a second language compared to that of the home environment creates conflict and confusion between parents and children. It creates a lack of interaction and communication between them. Since students/children learn English but their parents are unable to speak the same, it creates situations where children encounter inappropriate situations rather than interacting with different types of social situations among family and neighborhood. Students similarly lack cultural awareness and are expected to be victims of twisted relationships. During research conducted by a Los Angeles Times writer, he found that students are only staying in the class that their ethnic group tends to belong to, and bilingual educators are abandoning classes belonging to multiculturalism. It has been difficult to raise concerns about bilingual education in part because “the movement has come under intense criticism from conservatives” (Bernstein 58). In colleges and universities, even courses that highlight different ethnic groups tend to treat each group separately. He is concerned that students are unable to celebrate each other's cultures and believe that their "other group is getting more attention or boycotting another group's festivals because of the feeling of multiculturalism," he says
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