How Not to Be a Language Racist

Abstract

This final chapter summarizes the main points of the book and advocates an alternative set of values to those of language racism, including the following: seeing multilingualism rather than monolingualism as the norm; understanding the nature of language and culture in terms of fluidity and heterogeneity; taking a social constructivist view of identity; linking integration to an ideal of social justice and educational equity; supporting flexible multilingual education for all children and working together to break down the walls of ethnic and racial prejudice.