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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5338 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 17 of 18 13 August 2015 at 4:49pm | IP Logged |
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Right, the pushing of Afrikaans and English as languages of instruction over various other languages
had been voluntary and supported by the people who were actually affected (or if they had even been the ones who made the decisions) then I would feel very differently. It's, as you said, the means that I have the most problems with (actually I have a problem with the reasoning behind it as well). Let's not forget these language policies were running side and were intertwined with a genocide. To be clear I feel the same about the forced usage English during the colonization of North America. Most, if not all, Native American languages fared far worse than the languages that are spoken in South Africa and the last residential school for First Nations people in Canada closed in 1996. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5025 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 18 of 18 13 August 2015 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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Quite right.
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