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Bilingual and Bicultural
Bilingual and Bicultural
Bilingual
The concept of bilingual allows in our language to designate the ability of a person to use
and speak two different languages indistinctly, in any type of communicative situation and
Bicultural
Bicultural is that which implies the coexistence or the union of two cultures. The idea of
culture, meanwhile, refers to the set of knowledge, traditions and habits of a community, a
A region is bicultural when there are two predominant cultures on its territory. The term
as we said, supposes the presence of two cultures, while the bilingual refers specifically to
two languages. In general, bicultural is also bilingual, although bilingual may not be
bicultural.
Many times people are bicultural for family and social reasons. Let's suppose that a
Peruvian couple lives in Japan, where their child is born. This child will grow up listening
to his parents speak in Spanish; He will eat typical dishes from the land of his parents, such
as ceviche and anticuchos; and he will grow up with the music of Chabuca Granda. At the
same time, because of his birthplace, he will also speak Japanese, enjoy sushi, and like