Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The language model of the U.S.


In United States, civil liberties paradigm, anyone has the right to be educated in their mother tongue, unusual, exotic and strange it is. This does not mean that then everyone is usually expressed in English, common vehicle of interpersonal relationships, even if the country does not exist any official language.

This comes about from the constant squabble that occur here in trying to impose on the Castilian vernacular, as if that was something positive in itself and not a clumsy attack on individual freedom.

Well, see: no need for government grants, language immersion and other coercive measures in the U.S. not only survives the minority Spanish, but he is already the world's second largest number of Spanish speakers, over Spain itself.

And is that people speak the language that interests you. Therefore, the best defenders in any language are those who practice and the mandatory provisions of the respective laws.

Who do not feel the same way in Spain the Spanish, they say, try to impose the co-official regional languages ​​brave the detriment of the Castilian. Its maximum is meaningless linguistic babel of our Senate, whose plenary sessions will speak five languages ​​and spends public money on interpreters between people who are well aware of all the Castilian.

When, however, someone with common sense, try not to favor one language over another, then throw it around the neck of the Taliban oppressed languages. Happened to Nunez Feijoo, removing the preeminence of the Galician school comparable in Spanish and English. The same happens in Valencia, where the left calls "attack on our language," a measure similar to that of Galicia.

But is that studying languages ​​such as English, Castilian and Valencian is an attack or any other language?

For some it seems to be yes. In the U.S., however, without laws, the staff is perfectly clear about their priorities. Years ago, some liberal intellectuals called for subsidizing the black ghetto slang Oakland. They failed because African leaders as the poet Maya Angelou and the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to the passage: "After so many years fighting for racial equality, they said, will not allow us to try to segregate a new jargon."

And in those languages, as elsewhere, there is no better guideline to respect individual freedom.

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