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Re: Linguistic Decolonization
« on: June 21, 2021, 02:17:42 am »
"the U.K. is exempt from my criticism as they invented the language"

Except in this case:



For the record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_Lawson

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Taking part in the third series of the BBC family-history documentary series, Who Do You Think You Are?, Lawson sought to uncover some of her family's ancestry. She traced her ancestors to Ashkenazi Jews who originate from eastern Europe and Germany

"judging people by their English speaking ability itself is somewhat of a colonialist attitude, but that is another discussion. Besides, non-English speaking countries also practiced colonialism (e.g. Spain, France), so judging people based on their ability to speak those languages would also be a colonialist attitude, but that is also another discussion.)."

I agree. The worst are the (usually rich) "non-white" parents living in former Western colonies who deliberately converse with their offspring exclusively in English (or other former colonial language) instead of the local language. In a further ironic twist, often these parents' own English is actually not even that good!
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