Posted on 01/09/2008 11:01:59 AM PST by bs9021
Linguistic Imperialism
by: Bethany Stotts, January 09, 2008
Chicago, Ill.—With the debate over English-only education and illegal immigration sweeping the nation, some Hispanics believe that vocally supporting strong borders and strict immigration laws amounts to anti-Latino bigotry. “We have seen rapid highs in rate in hate speech on talk radio programs attacking the Latino community as a result of the debate over undocumented workers. ... The megaphone offered to the odious brand of hate speech comes compliments of radio conglomerates that own hundreds of stations across the country,” National Hispanic Media Coalition President Alex Nogales told the U. S. Senate Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation this November....Similarly, this December Rutgers Professor Laura Anne Lomas described supporters of a single (English) national language as belonging to “nativist, conservative, anti-Latino, English-only political ideology.”...
Professor Lomas criticizes Shell’s predictions as unrealistic because of a “new militarization of the U.S. border, and the current dramatic new politics, the policing of Mexicans...including raids and roundups, in workplaces and public spaces, balance seems to be only diminishing between the two countries...as a result of NAFTA.” Lomas later hinted that American multilingual studies were adopting a farcically moderate position, saying “By pretending to inject a position located in between the right and the left, multilingual American literature studies attempted to ally themselves with an ostensibly neutral position, which is the current [trend] in economic and social progress.” “[One theorist] I think correctly argues that Latin Americans’ Spanish language class at the current conjuncture have a practically unique potential to challenge the de facto and official English monolinguist attitudes in the United States, partially because the issues arise stem [sic] from the convergence,” she said. Lomas added, chuckling, “So you can tell I’m being totally partisan...
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Intentional segregation by language means an unwillingness to assimilate. That is the problem.
I think correctly argues
that Latin Americans’ Spanish language
class
at the current conjuncture
have a practically
unique
potential to challenge the
de
facto
and official English monolinguist
attitudes in the United States,
partially because the issues arise
stem
[sic]
from the convergence,”
Lomas added, chuckling
Such poetry brings a Hillary-like tear to my eye
No Comprende: An undocumented immigrant’s confusing conversation with tech support in Pakistan.
It left out “status quo”.
Anybody that goes to another country and refuses to learn the language comes to conquer and colonize, pure and simple.
Let’s talk about Mexican racism, hate, nativism, and their conquistador mentality.
For what it is worth, you can consider me to be anti-Polish, anti-Russian, anti- Arabic, anti-Chinese, anti-French, anti-NewSpeak, and anti-every other language that is not what made this the Nation that what it used to be when I was a kid.
Also, borders were intended for more than just exercises in cartography.
“some Hispanics believe that vocally supporting strong borders and strict immigration laws amounts to anti-Latino bigotry”
If its bigotry, its bigotry. So what. This is our Country, not Mexico, Poland, China etc.... English is our language. The rest of the world is bigoted in this regard as well.
And what’s the situation in Mexico? Can you conduct government business in English? How much local English programming is available?
Not anti-Latino but pro-American. There’s nothing wrong with pro-American no matter how many non-Americans complain about it.
Spanish I can manage. Academese is another matter.
I always figured borders were just lines to color within....
How about simple linguistic majoritarianism, not to be confused with babbling diversity.
This begs the question.
Are they afraid of english because of a PERCIEVED English superiority OR is it because they REALIZE English is superior and are intimidated.
I quote Victor David Hansen, “some cultures ARE better than others.”
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