BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BEING BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL

 

DIFFERENCES

DIFFERENCES OF BEING BILINGUAL AND BICULTURAL
BILINGUAL	BICULTURAL
Bilingual is the person who uses another language in addition to their mother tongue and does so fluently, that is, they speak both languages, although sometimes they dominate one language more than the other.   The bilingual can act as two monolinguals in one person.     The bilingual person knows and speaks two languages, but does not know the cultural context of their second language.   Bilingual specifically refers to two languages.   The bilingual is not bicultural although there are bicultural bilinguals.	Bicultural take part, to varying degrees, in the life of two or more cultures.   Bicultural adapt, in part at least, their attitudes, behaviours, values, languages, etc. to these cultures. It implies the coexistence or the union of two cultures. The idea of ​​culture, for its part, refers to the set of knowledge, traditions and habits of a community, a historical period, etc. They combine and blend aspects of the cultures involved. Some of these come from one or the other culture(s) whereas others are blends of the cultures. Therefore, some aspects of the bicultural are adaptive and controllable (this allows the bicultural to adapt to the context and the situation). The bicultural is one who has had the opportunity to be in two different cultural contexts. Presupposes the presence of two cultures.