What Is The Importance Of Your Mother Tongue?

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A confusion troubles me a lot these days. In my country, people have started believing that English is the most useful Language as we are going Global. Parents least bother whether their children learn the mother tongue or not, they only focus on a bright career. Though I write in English for my profession, I have forever loved by Mother Tongue a lot. I am an Indian; to be more specific, a Bengali woman by heart. I think language is not only a medium of communication or expression, it is a part of our identity. It is connected with our upbringing, it defines our everyday living. I spend my leisure with Indian music, movies and stories. I think we exist as social beings and our lives are constructed by a group of people, like people who produce our food, who make our houses, who clean our garbage; these people have no connection with the English language! And if we do not communicate with them, probably we will detach ourselves from the flow of life! Still, I do not have enough logic to convince people about my view! May be, some people can happily exist without knowing their mother tongue! Can somebody explain it?