On a campus where students regularly speak and study languages from around the world, Bowen Xu PO ’29 noticed something missing: few places for students to write in them. That gap became Graft, the multilingual review of the Claremont Colleges, a student-run literary journal that publishes creative and scholarly work across languages and cultures.
Tag: Multilingual
OPINION: We should all be ashamed of our monolingualism
As a larger portion of Americans speak multiple languages than ever before, there is an alarming decrease in multilingual pursuits by students on college campuses across the nation. Amidst the implementation of ongoing mass deportations and racial profiling initiatives by the Trump administration, “learning languages serves as a small but effective tool in order to push back against authoritarian efforts to make our nation less diverse,” Alex Benach PO‘28 writes. Benach wants students to take personal responsibility in realizing the inclusive and diverse vision of America that many claim to value deeply by learning languages other than their native tongue in order to foster a better understanding of the diverse perspectives around them.