-       A military aspect, it is important to have military people that understand each other’s language. 

 -Helpful in breaking the monolingual mindset, and breaking down the barrier between different culture, teaching Chinese in specific can bring more understanding of Chinese culture, and in what way Chinese people think about the surrounding, promotes social inclusion and understanding.

- Because it is so different from English, learning Chinese build a new way in processing language. Instead of limiting yourself, it richer your identity.

 
- For me, learning Chinese reinforce my identify as a Chinese. Because it facilitate my understanding of my culture root. China has huge bank of history that I can rely on to make meaning of the world, I have these rich resources to rich my own understanding of the world. History repeats itself, China has long timeline of history, around 5000 years, that is a rich data base. Things happened before, now showing up in modern society in a different way, I can interpret those things, make connections, and I can assess them in a very authentic way use the target language to approach. We have a lot of ideas came in the past, in Confucianism, in Chinese history, we have got different schools, we have got a time, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion (百家争鸣; "hundred schools contend")… now we lost faith in academy…. There is a lot to learn.