Bilingual is Better

A new study on the Benefits of Being Bilingual finds that in addition to being able to eavesdrop on unsuspecting strangers' conversations, being bilingual is very handy.  

-a team of psychologists led by Boaz Keysar at the University of Chicago found that forcing people to rely on a second language systematically reduced human biases, allowing the subjects to escape from the usual blind spots of cognition. In a sense, they were better able to think without style.

-The scientists also found that thinking in a second language reduced our cognitive inconsistencies.

-Nevertheless, learning how to cope with this constant interference – having to toggle back and forth between different forms of description – comes with lasting benefits.

Being able to communicate and relate to an entire group of people different from your own is pretty good to.