Bilingual education is rooted in a political ideology that rejects a singularity ofcultural vision and works toward understanding across cultural and linguisticdifference. Although bilingual education is generally lauded as an __6__educational experience, this is not a universal opinion. Given the range of politicalperceptions of multilingualism, from economic bonus to political threat, and theinfluence of social policies on public views and expectations of citizens’ languagecompetencies, opportunities for and attitudes toward bilingual education varywidely.The volatile “English only” movement snowballing in the United Statespromotes a highly deterministic link between language, culture, and nation.Within this philosophy, American culture is firmly anchored in use of the Englishlanguage, and cultural and linguistic diversity are drawn as intolerable threats topolitical unity. This ethnocentric mentality is __7__ by the growing prominence ofEnglish as a global language for purposes of business and interculturalcommunication, and the immensity of the American economy in global financialmarkets. Acquisition of English is thus rationalized economically with relative ease,and under the additional political weight which __8__ minority tongues as unAmerican, other languages are drawn through a sort of cost-benefit analysis asirrelevant, interfering, and best abandoned.Within this political climate, bilingual education runs the __9__ fromculturally remedial to barely legal, if at all. Nonetheless, innovative bilingualprograms, including formative, locally developed programs such as two-wayimmersion, are taking place in the United States, many of them socially andculturally grounded in __10__ opposition to current political platforms.
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(A) auxiliary
(B) enriching
(C) impervious
(D) oscillating