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Urvi Bhuwania Week 1  A Link Between Language and Culture PC:  Loyola Marymount University       Recently, I read an article on The Daily Q (linked below) that interviewed four students from Northwestern University in Qatar on their beliefs regarding the purpose of language and the effect that language has had on their cultural identities. For brief context, Qatar is an Arab country in the Middle East, and all the interviewees chosen had a high proficiency in English with typically less fluency in Arabic. As a result, many of the students found themselves becoming increasingly westernized and detached from their cultures; they got bullied for their lack of fluency in the native tongue, got treated like a foreigner for their fluency in English, and other times were simply just unable to communicate with those in their community.      The level of isolation that the interviewees felt from cultural aspects of their life was honestly rather astou...