Edited sentence: Given that nearly every Welsh speaker also speaks a more major language (commonly English), it is believed that promoting the learning of Welsh is counter-productive, and serves as an artificial barrier to communication.It is believed that students that study Welsh could better spend their time learning some other, more mainstream language, or another subject entirely.Many countries manage to attain much unique culture without having a separate language; one such example is Australia.Promoting the Welsh language could even be seen as a form of indirect racism, as those who speak the language are far more likely to have been brought up in Wales than any other country, and therefore are likely to receive preference when applying to many jobs in Wales whose descriptions indicate speaking Welsh as an advantage.Resources spent on translating things like government documents and signposts into Welsh could be better spent on other things, or simply not performed and the money saved reflected in lower taxes.Some people believe both of these arguments to be spurious, because bilingualism could be attained instead by learning a more mainstream language that would be more useful in the real world, and because there is plenty of other 'Welsh culture' in existance without the need for Wales to speak a separate language.Some people believe that the use of Welsh should be deprecated.The common defences of the drive to promote the Welsh language are that bilingualism helps people's (and especially children's) minds to pick up new ideas in a broad sense, and also that it preserves some essence of 'Welsh culture'