Globalization...A problem?

So let me get straight to the point, so in class today we had this debate (well I wasn't part of it but I couldn't help it)

The professor assigned 10 students to discuss the problem of Globalization, 5 for each side (with/against), so I was part of the rest of class just listening carefully  because it was a sensitive topic.

As the debate started, both sides were making some sense, till the part where the against group started to hit on language. I wasn't convinced at all. I mean I'm an Arab that speaks English fluently, very fluently, but that doesn't make my mother-tong lost in the dark. Like I previously mentioned it was a sensitive topic. My group of friends talk, vent and just chit-chat in English, we clicked normally, I never saw that as a problem, but then now it's a problem?

I mean, how can speaking another language be something bad? In my religion, we are encouraged to learn other languages and perfect them because we never know when we might need that language. If you look at it, you actually are at an advantage when you speak more than one language.  It's part of catching up with the world. In my case, English was not an option, I was actually raised studying it, and reading did me very good. However, as I perfected English, my Arabic language wasn't affected at all. I agree, with the fact that using English and ditching your mother-tong is extremely horrible, but that's not my case and it never will. I'm a person that has a great connection to who I am, where I come from and to my roots.

However, in class this morning, this student puts this picture out that we English speakers (my friends and I ) are really people who perfect English and forgot our Mother-Tong. No honey, your mistaken. Although it wasn't my place to talk during the debate but I couldn't help it. Globalization is a trend that can not be avoided, but just as my religion taught me, you will have to follow up  the new trends in this world by taking the good and leaving out what disqualifies to meet my religion's rules.

I don't know about that student, but I'm a private school graduate and no it wasn't thanks to my school that my English is very good, it's because I found the right way to improve it. The funny thing is, all the other students think that English is mastered if you are a private school graduate, no people that's not the case. There are books, shows, music, and all sorts of sources that can help you. You just have to use them right and of course be at an advantage and it feels really good to be able to speak another language.

Everything has it's good side and bad side, you as an individual you should just know what you can take from it and just make it part of your life because whether you like it or not it will be part of your life. You just have to be a convinced individual that knows what to take and what suits your culture and religion.

BTW, my Korean is in the process of fluent-ness :D